They were called the Taíno, and the Europeans who colonised their land took almost everything away from them.

For centuries, the pyramids of Giza have puzzled researchers - not just their mysterious voids and hidden chambers, but exactly how ancient Egyptians built such impressive structures without modern technology.

In a major study released Thursday, a team of government and university scientists say that the nature of air pollution is changing dramatically as cars become cleaner.

They're the minority the majority is dying to get into. Superagers: older folks aged 80 and beyond whose razor-sharp powers of mental fitness defy their advanced years.

For more than 2,000 years, the terracotta cavalryman statue guarded the tomb of China's first emperor, surviving centuries underneath the ground.

On Campbell Island in the Southern Ocean, some 640 km (400 miles) south of New Zealand, is a single Sitka spruce. More than 275 km from any other tree, it is often credited as the "world's loneliest tree".

There is a great deal of misinformation out there regarding genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

A study on dozens of galaxies within several billion light years of our own has revealed black holes that far exceed our expectations on just how big these monsters can grow.

In the 21st century, misinformation has spread across the internet like a virus, making it harder for people to distinguish fact from fiction.

Regular earthquakes are bad enough. Volcanoes too. But an earthquake swarm at a supervolcano? That really sounds like it could be scary, and scientists say they've just detected such a phenomenon at the site of Yellowstone caldera.

It's a place that almost seems too magical to exist: the world's largest underwater cave, spanning an incredible 347 kilometres (216 miles) of subterranean caverns, discovered in Mexico a month ago.

Cape Town has postponed the date on which it would run out of water - again.

For those of you who struggle to drink the advised eight glasses of water a day, we've got good news: that 'rule' doesn't have to apply to everyone.

The sperm's tail is perhaps one of the most iconic structures among all of the cells in the human body, so it's odd to think there are still some things we don't know about it.

In one of the scariest moments in the movie Jurassic Park, a pair of intelligent Velociraptors, brought back to Earth by man's hubris, defy an assumption about their limitations: They open a kitchen door.

Diets have always gone through fads. The grapefruit diet, Atkins, paleo, Whole30 - like a many-headed weight-loss hydra, just as soon as one falls out of favor, another rises in its place.

For those of you who struggle to drink the advised eight glasses of water a day, we've got good news: that 'rule' doesn't have to apply to everyone.

Even with all the photos that have been taken of space, there are still new things to be seen.

Scientists have been rejuvenating old mice with infusions of not just the blood of younger mice, but even blood from teenage human beings - and we finally have our first clues on why this strange technique works.

If you were to travel all the way to the northwest tip of a remote peninsula along the northwest coastline of rural Alaska, you'd find an isolated town sitting around 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of the Arctic Circle.

Over the millions of years since human and chimp ancestors parted ways, our brains have virtually tripled in size, while theirs have barely budged. Sure, some days it doesn't feel like it, but the fact Homo sapiens have relatively large brains isn'