Apr 11th, 2026 - You can now listen to Fox News articles! Archaeologists have uncovered ancient skeletons beneath a school site in France — all buried in an unusual seated position. The discovery was announced by Inrap, France's national institution for preventive archaeology, in a press release in March. The skeletons were found on the grounds of the Josephine Baker school complex in Dijon, roughly 195 miles southeast of Paris. The campus serves students from preschool through elementary school. The graves date to the Gallic period in France, a time when Celtic tribes known as the Gauls lived in the ... [Read More]

Apr 10th, 2026 - Archaeologists discovered the site during salvage operations for the new Mexico City-Querétaro passenger rail line Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) recently announced the discovery of a well-preserved pre-Hispanic stone altar with offerings and human remains. The finding, near the Toltec site Tula Chico in Hidalgo in central Mexico, was made during archaeological salvage work associated with planning a new 232km passenger rail between Mexico City and Querétaro. Construction on the Mexico City-Querétaro train began in April 2025, with ... [Read More]

Apr 10th, 2026 - In this week's newsletter: Once close to extinction, the species is rebounding due to years of conservation work Don't get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I will never forget the moment I first saw a mountain gorilla. It was early on Mount Muhabura in Uganda, and I had spent the morning stumbling up the slopes of the inactive volcano in the Virunga range, which also spans Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Just when I thought my lungs could not take it any more, I noticed the silhouette of a creature picking leaves off a branch in a forest clearing. It was ... [Read More]

Apr 10th, 2026 - Charity advises replacing seed and nut feeders, where birds gather, with small amounts of mealworms, fat balls or suet Garden birds should not be fed seeds and nuts over the summer months, the RSPB has said, in an attempt to reduce the spread of avian diseases. Bird lovers are being urged to take down their bird feeders between May and October to help birds such as the greenfinch, whose numbers have plummeted after the spread of trichomonosis, a parasitic disease transmitted more easily when birds cluster around feeders in the warmer months. In new guidance, the RSPB is advising people to ... [Read More]

Apr 9th, 2026 - History from countries and communities across the globe, including the world's major wars. The stories behind the faiths, food, entertainment and holidays that shape our world. Far from Rome's center, soldiers gathered in underground temples for mysterious rituals. Nearly 2,000 years later, that altar reappeared in Scotland, changing what we know about life on the frontier of the Roman Empire. In 2010, archaeologists in Inveresk—surveying the site for a that date back to around A.D. 140, when the territory was reoccupied under , a deity associated with salvation and protection. ... [Read More]

Apr 9th, 2026 - A suspected cougar sighting is reigniting online debate about the existence of the animal in Nova Scotia. Despite Parks Canada evidence pointing to their presence in New Brunswick, biologists say the Nova Scotia government still won't say they are here. Ella Macdonald reports. A suspected cougar sighting in East Pubnico, N.S., is reigniting online debate about the existence of cougars in Nova Scotia. The eastern cougar, which is a subspecies of the cougar in eastern North America, was declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2011. Meanwhile, western cougars exist and thrive ... [Read More]

Apr 9th, 2026 - When Google announced last month it was moving up its own internal timeline for migrating to quantum-resistant forms of encryption, it started a broader conversation in the cybersecurity and cryptography communities: Just what was pushing one of the largest tech companies in the world to significantly accelerate its adoption of post-quantum protections for its systems, devices and data? In the weeks since, new research has lended weight to those claims. A joint research paper from the California Institute of Technology, its tech startup Oratomic and the University of California concluded ... [Read More]

Apr 9th, 2026 - Space travel is, of course, an inherently dangerous undertaking. In addition to concerns about equipment malfunctions and the risks of manufacturing an Earth-like environment in the vacuum of space, time in space is also incredibly hard on astronaut's bodies, with zero-G affecting muscle mass, bone density, heart function, fluid distribution, and more. One of the greatest risks comes from space radiation: Outside the protective bubble of Earth's magnetosphere, astronauts are exposed to high-energy cosmic rays, the Van Allen radiation belts, and solar events like coronal mass ejections (CME) ... [Read More]