A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...
About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit ...
Stalagmite data suggest Homo floresiensis faced prolonged drought that stressed both them and their prey, contributing to ...
A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species ...
Scientists in Kyoto found that fresh grapes rarely host the yeast needed for wine fermentation, but raisins do. They soaked ...
Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.
The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...
Skylights, openings in the surface of Mars that descend down into caves, have been found on Mars, along with signatures for the presence of water ice. Possible giant "karstic" caves that formed when ...
The Macomb County Public Works Department will continue to use 2,500-year-old technology to ensure residents in the St. Clair Shores area can continue to flush freely and avoid basement flooding and ...
The Serapeum holds massive stone boxes that display signs of advanced machining, raising questions about the technology used by ancient Egyptians. Polls close in Tennessee special election for House ...
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Identifying signs of life in ancient rocks is hard. It is not enough to find organic molecules—rocks of all sorts contain them but “organic” just means the molecules contain chains of carbon atoms.