For decades, the popular theory was bleak: the islanders, obsessed with their statues, supposedly deforested their island to ...

The origin of Easter Island's iconic head statues is one of the world's greatest archaeological puzzles. Now, scientists claim to have solved one important part of the mystery. Weighing between 12 and ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...