A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of rotational tools including wheels, according to a new ...

Morton was a physician and naturalist who lived in Philadelphia from 1799 until the end of his life in 1851. A lecture he delivered to aspiring doctors at the Philadelphia Association for Medical ...

These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.

The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that wheel-like technologies existed even earlier.

The discovery of an 11th-century Islamic astrolabe in Verona, Italy, has captivated historians and scientists alike. With ...

Just before midnight on July 19, 1952, a Washington National Airport air traffic controller spotted seven unusual objects on radar—first hovering about 15 miles south-southwest of the city, later ...

Berry used mathematical means to investigate what would happen to the neutron if the direction of the magnetic field changed slowly. According to the so-called adiabatic theorem, which was introduced ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

Intravital microscopy (IVM) enables live imaging of animals at single-cell level, offering essential insights into cancer progression. This technique allows for the observation of single-cell ...