Iron Age cargoes from Dor reveal how ancient Mediterranean trade evolved alongside shifting empires and political power. New ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

Two renowned prehistoric individuals were likely infected with a human papillomavirus that has been linked to several cancers ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of years before agriculture emerged. According to the study’s co-authors, the ...

Wisconsin Historical Society researchers have uncovered 16 ancient canoes in Lake Mendota, some of which are thousands of ...

Sleep is one of life’s most universal behaviors. Despite its ubiquity, it’s also one of the most mysterious. Humans spend ...

An amazing find in a Wisconsin lake has rewritten the timeline of advanced cultures in North America by centuries.

The findings were recently announced by the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in Shijiazhuang.

Cannabis produces a complex suite of bioactive compounds, including tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), but how ...

A new study in Nature led by scientists at New York University reports that fossil bones as old as 3 million years still ...

One of the standout findings from the Paleogene record is that rainfall patterns shifted dramatically during periods of ...

A new study from the multidisciplinary brain research center at Bar-Ilan University found that jellyfish and sea anemones ...