Macomb County Public Works will continue to use 2,500-year-old technology to ensure St. Clair Shores area residents can flush freely, avoid flooding.

Public Works is replacing four 45-year-old “giant screws” – aka the “Archimedes screw” – that carry sewage over 30 feet ...

Archaeologists have completed the first comprehensive technological mapping of an intricate underground tunnel system beneath the ancient Etruscan city of Veii, revealing a sophisticated network of ...

Arms technology is one of the driving forces behind warfare. While there was a period where most of humanity was […] ...

Retroviruses are viruses that have evolved the ability to write their genetic code into a cell's own DNA. The most ancient ...

Microbes frozen for 40,000 years in Alaska's permafrost are thawing as temperatures rise, releasing CO2 and posing new ...

About 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity ...

They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them.

A new study has shed new light on ancient seafarers and their advanced maritime technology, challenging previous beliefs on ...

Paleolithic tools found at the Namorotukunan site in Kenya suggest that early Homo species kept their technology going even ...

New research suggests that the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace, and Inca rulers may have used them as a ...

Scientists have found traces of ancient opiates in the residue lining an Egyptian alabaster vase, indicating that opiate use ...