The material resembles medieval chainmail at the molecular level and could be used in body armor. Chemists have invented a new material that could be the future of body armor — chainmail.

It features three huge medieval towers adorned with shimmering stained-glass windows. But the kids were focused more intently on something at the edge of the stonemason’s yard outside the ...

A Norwegian ship suspected of being involved in "serious damage" to an underwater telecoms cable between Latvia and Sweden has been boarded by police. The Silver Dania cargo vessel, with an all ...

Researchers studying crustaceans in Vietnam have identified a new "supergiant" sea bug species that bears a surprising resemblance to a classic movie villain. Deep-sea sea bugs, or the Bathynomus ...

Last month, an 18th-century 28-meter wooden shipwreck was discovered off the Mazandaran coast of the Caspian Sea in southern Iran. Operating under Russian influence, the ship likely comprised part ...

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When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...

In this documentary, the artist depicts what a more just and beautiful world might look like. By Alissa Wilkinson Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose play reunited former associates from a criminal ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin ...

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...