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SPELLING CONEST: Massey University's new magic and witchcraft paper allows students to make voodoo dolls or 'magical curse tablets' for their first assignment.
Students rarely receive an A for sending a curse to their lecturers, but that is what Massey students are being encouraged to do.
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Switching from beef to kangaroo burgers could significantly help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, says an Australian scientist.
The methane gas produced by sheep and cows through belching and flatulence is more potent than carbon dioxide in the damage it can cause to the environment.
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Israeli archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a Roman temple beneath the foundations of a church.
The building, which dates to the second century AD, was found during an excavation at Zippori, the capital of Galilee during the Roman period.
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The extinction of many ancient species may be due to humans rather than climate change, experts say.
Large prehistoric animals in Tasmania may have been wiped out by human hunting and not temperature changes, a team of international scientists argue.
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The unique library of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, buried beneath lava by Vesuvius's eruption in AD79, is slowly revealing its long-held secrets
STORED in a sky-lit reading room on the top floor of the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples are the charred remains of the only library to survive from classical antiquity. The ancient world's other great book collections -- at Athens, Alexandria and Rome -- all perished in the chaos of the centuries. But the library of the Villa of the Papyri was conserved, paradoxically, by an act of destruction.
Lying to the northwest of ancient Herculaneum, this sumptuous...
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Scientists have grown a tree from what may be the oldest seed ever germinated.
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