Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we encounter today: finding reliable sources of clean drinking water while keeping ...

On the southern edge of the Teotihuacan Valley in Mexico, the peak of Cerro Patlachique towers higher than any other. The mountain's name means "the place where exchanges/trades/barters are made to ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The city of Rome has been inhabited continuously for 14,000 years ...

DNA within dried feces dating from more than 1,000 years ago provides valuable insights into the pathogens that plagued ancient Mexican peoples, according to a study published in PLOS One by Drew ...

In Rome’s own mythology, the early city was architecturally restrained and modest. This began to change, its ancient historians wrote, after Rome conquered Greece in the 2nd century B.C.E. and ...

Stanford Medicine researchers invent an electromagnetic device that can gently sort different types of cells by levitating them to different heights. It looks like a magic trick: Cells at the bottom ...

A federal judge extended a temporary restraining order, preventing water shutoffs at several Jackson apartment complexes. The complexes, owned by Woodlands Property Holdings and managed by Blue Magma ...

The United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine, President Donald Trump said on social media Thursday after meeting with the country’s ...

Imagine being marched by force through a desert with barely anything to drink while your captor repeatedly cools himself by dumping gallons of water on his head, and maybe you’ll start to get a sense ...

Birmingham — When Patrick Hughes and Casey Goetz first joined Birmingham Seaholm’s varsity football team they were in the fifth grade. Hughes and Goetz had never played tackle football but stood on ...

McALLEN — Mexico failed to deliver millions of gallons of water to South Texas farmers, in defiance of a 1944 treaty. Now, members of Texas’ congressional delegation are calling on the Trump ...