Archaeologists at a remote lake in Chiapas search for clues to what life was like for the unconquered Maya 500 years ago and how it has, or hasn't, changed for their descendants.

An rare sun show gave cold-bitten Nebraskans a reason to go outside Wednesday.

A Chinese farmer, long ridiculed for building robots from spare parts, is making money and winning awards from his hobby. His latest: a mustachioed, rickshaw puller.

A skull, pelvis, legs, and pieces of a torso found inside a granite sarcophagus likely belonged to Queen Seshseshet, mother the first pharaoh of Egypt's 6th dynasty.

Hardcore coffee, tea, and soda fans may be more prone to hallucinations and other mental disturbances, new research suggests.

Residents of the Caribbean island of Montserrat call one of their edible frog species mountain chicken, but this edible amphibian is now endangered, conservationists say.

Some assumptions about the evolution of jawed vertebrates are "completely wrong," according to a new analysis of a 415-million-year-old fish-like animal.

Pulsar energy, Saturn storms, and an out-of-this-world balloon are among the week's best space images.

Animal-skin pages of early medieval manuscripts contain genetic material capable of solving long-standing mysteries about the works, according to new research.