A Solar eclipse was one of the phenomena that prompted the ancient Greeks to come up with the most brilliant astronomic ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

This week, researchers reported that malaria influenced population distribution in Africa thousands of years ago.

Ancient language precursors go back even earlier than we thought, dolphins exposed to the Deepwater Horizon disaster can't ...

What can bones tell us about life millions of years ago? A paleobiologist decodes chemical clues to uncover how animals lived ...

Archaeologists have identified the location of Alexandria on the Tigris, a long-lost city established by Alexander the Great ...

The long-lost city of Alexandria on the Tigris, founded by Alexander the Great, has been discovered in southern Iraq, with ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

The South Asian summer monsoon sustains billions of people today. For a long time, the prevailing scientific view has held ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed "Mary Anning" after a 19th century English ...

A new study explores how kissing evolved with the help of science, tracing it back to early grooming behaviors in ancient apes.

For the first time ever, the researchers deciphered these cryptic glyphs, finding, among other things, a 4,000-year-old ...