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Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't start with Australopithecus, according to a new study

Imagine strolling through a serene pond in Hong Kong’s Mai Po Nature Reserve, expecting to see familiar aquatic life, only to encounter a creature straight out ... Continue Reading →

In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous history

Google announced its latest quantum chip, Willow. But what really caught the industry's attention was a wild claim tucked into the blog post.

Astronomer Tycho Brahe studied alchemy in addition to the stars. Researchers analyzed the elements from his lab and were surprised to find tungsten.

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Humans have left evidence of their passing through America's great rift for more than 10 millennia.

Some 300 years ago, non-Indigenous travelers along the Upper and Middle Orinoco River—one of the world’s largest rivers, its flows looping for 1,400 miles through Colombia and Venezuela—first reported sightings of mysterious rock engravings, depicting snakes and other patterns, along its shores. But as the years passed, these artworks were recorded...

This stunning blue mask may represent the Aztec cycle of death and renewal.

Two gold-and-iron artifacts from ancient Spain predated our ability to work with iron. So how did they do it? With ready-to-use iron from the sky.

Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, an extinct hominin. Her discovery changed our understanding of evolution.

Researchers have achieved an astonishing feat: creating functional mouse stem cells capable of developing into...

BALTIMORE — In a groundbreaking discovery that’s turning the world of linguistics and archaeology upside down, researchers from Johns Hopkins University have unearthed what may be the oldest known alphabetic writing in human history — and it’s dramatically older than anyone previously thought. Hidden within a tomb in western Syria, four delicate clay cylinders are challenging everything scholars believed about the origins of alphabetic...

Physicists say they detected a double helix in the fabric of spacetime

The Homotherium cub was preserved in Siberian permafrost with its dark fur and flesh intact.

A recent study has revealed a link between Mesopotamian cylinder seals and the proto-cuneiform symbols that emerged as one of the earliest writing systems.

Inside a cave beneath a medieval German castle, researchers have discovered a pit of bones that they say unlock secrets of the earliest humans.

Mystery solved!

Well, not “locally real,” at least.

One team of experts believes this could be a major breakthrough. Not everyone is so sure.

From 140 million miles distant, Earth just got the following message: NASA knows exactly what comes next. This message helps with transmitting.

Scientists have turned a 41,000-year-old magnetic reversal into a haunting soundscape.