Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was a lush and fertile landscape, home to thriving communities. A new study ...
The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...
Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...
A man who died in 2019 has been posthumously identified as the perpetrator of three cold case homicides in Toronto, with ...
Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.
About 5 years ago, LaKisha Tawanda David traced her family's ancestry back to Ghana through genetic testing. For her, a Black ...
After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...
AMISTAD, a new collections-based research project led by London’s Natural History Museum, is working on untangling the identities of a group of blue butterflies from South America.
Bennu samples reveal biological sugars, a strange, gum-like material, and ancient stardust that shed light on the early solar ...
The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.
Hopefully, it’s a problem that butterfly researchers won’t have to face for too much longer. A new museum research project, known as AMISTAD, is combining ancient DNA, modern computing technology and ...
Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...