Specialized heavy vehicles always amazes me. There are countless highly specific vehicles, designed to do incredibly difficult jobs, that most of us have never heard of. Before today, I didn’t even ...

Human activity has significantly altered the earth’s landscape — so much so that many scientists have said the planet began a new geological chapter called the Anthropocene era. Many of these changes ...

Sometimes, clues about ancient technology are hidden in the most mundane things. In this case, Tel-Aviv University archaeologist Erez Ben-Yosef and his colleagues went rummaging through heaps of slag, ...