In a landmark discovery that bridges nearly a century of theoretical physics, a Chinese research team has successfully captured the first direct evidence of the Migdal effect, a breakthrough with ...

A pile of ancient arrowheads from southern Africa still holds traces of toxic plant residue, even after some 60,000 years. The discovery pushes back the earliest direct evidence of poisoned arrow use ...

Archaeologists have found the first direct evidence of what may have been a war elephant deployed by Hannibal during the Second Punic War (218-201 BCE). To date, evidence of these war animals has ...

A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny ...