These 30 “curse tablets” meant for the dead show what lengths Athenians would go to hex their enemies. Jutta Stroszeck/German Archaeological InstituteTablet curse containing incantation against the newlywed Glykera, focusing on her vulva, by someone jealous of her marital bliss.…
An image from NASA’s Cassini probe, taken Sept. 23, 2006, shows a pair of hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Saturn’s most Earth-like moon looks a bit less likely to host life, thanks to quantum mechanics, the weird rules that govern subatomic…
The man had been in there far too long, John Struczynski thought. Twenty minutes had elapsed since he had entered the shower facility in the Emirates Lounge for business and first-class passengers at Birmingham International Airport, in the West Midlands…
When Lendrum was apprehended in June 2018, he was carrying rare falcon eggs strapped to his body in a custom sling. Two grinning men pose for a video camera in front of a helicopter: “We’re going on a tour,” one…
The newly discovered “Yaravirus” contains genes that have never been seen in any other viruses. Our planet is teeming with mysterious microbes. Now, in the waters of an artificial lake, scientists may have discovered one of the most mysterious of…
A bird’s-eye view of the temple, taken at the end of the 2013 excavation season. The discovery of an Iron Age temple near Jerusalem has upended the idea that the ancient Kingdom of Judah, located in what is now southern…
A photo from Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite shows two gargantuan cracks forming along the edge of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers on the continent. Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, has just…
What would happen to life on Earth if the planet were supersized? For nearly four years, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft whisked through space, surveying our corner of the galaxy. It monitored more than 150,000 stars, looking for planets about the size…
A photo shows the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst Project at night. One of the universe’s deep mysteries just got a lot stranger. Astrophysicists have discovered a clue that could help explain why, every once in a…
VideoFox News Flash top headlines for Feb. 11 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Only married couples can have sex, according to a legal loophole still on the books in Virginia. Democratic state…