It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

Could it be that the alchemists’ long-elusive dream — transmuting the worthless into the sublime — has at last been realized?

Antarctic research has received a new boost thanks to a novel new technique providing new insights into how the paleoclimate ...

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

Two recently discovered ancient gold rings set with garnets reveal how Greek trends and customs became part of life in ...

The tombs of three prominent statesmen from the New Kingdom era (1539 to 1077 BCE) have been uncovered in Luxor, according to ...

Tracks from two humanlike species crossing paths in ancient Africa shed light on the tale of our specialized locomotion.

It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

For the first time, we have a method for extracting proteins from preserved soft tissues like brains – which could be a ...

Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.