The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located.


The Berlin Wall was almost 90 miles long. That's a lot of concrete to take down.
Countries resort to walls, barriers or fences as solutions for keeping people out or in.
Amelia Earhart most likely died on an uninhabited tropical island in the remote Pacific.

A Persian army vanished in the desert 2,500 years ago. Watch how researchers now claim they have found the army.
View remains found in the Sahara Desert that may be relics of a long-lost army.
It wasn't just men that produced Paleolithic cave drawings, new evidence suggests.

The 2012 doomsday hype is spreading like wildfire, but where's the science? We ask the experts.
Discovery News attended the 2012 movie red carpet, asking the big questions.
Ace dwarf planet hunter Mike Brown can't find the fabled Planet X. Or can he?

An audio-visual tour of the advantages of living on a planet with innards as hot as the Sun.
Your winter weather is all about El Nino, yet not long ago scientists disagreed about...
It's unreachably far underground, but Earth's core is starting to give up its secrets.

Printed roll-to-roll organic PVs may not be the most powerful, but they're cheap.
Slide show reveals walls we continue to build and refuse to tear down.
Fuel made from nanoaluminum and ice could power missions to the moon or Mars.

The case of an Iowa cat that contracted swine flu has experts reexamining the disease.
DNA from thousands of species could offer new insights into the evolution of vertebrates.
Mighty termites could help to solve our energy needs.

What drives someone like the Fort Hood shooter to do something so horrible?
Our human ancestors did not eat much fruit, opting instead for nuts and insects.
A team of scientists finds that baby talk is not, as previously assumed, universal.

A battle that happened during the Late Cretaceous reveals just how fierce T. rex really was.
A recently identified tiny dinosaur coexisted with enormous other species.
An Indian impact crater suggests a meteor strike may have killed the dinosaurs.
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