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19+ hour, 31+ min ago   (281+ words) The ice looks silent from the surface. But what if something has been waiting underneath it for thousands of years? There are places on Earth …...

21+ hour, 34+ min ago   (423+ words) WHY SOME CIVILIZATIONS LIVE FOR 6,000 YEARS WHILE OTHERS GO TITS UP BEFORE THEY LEARN TO RIDE A TRICYCLE — PART THREE: SOPHISTICATED ADMINISTRATION Why do some civilizations survive for thousands …...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (433+ words) The Namib’s landscape could easily belong in a science fiction movie — endless dunes, otherworldly colors, and now, a centuries-old ship resting miles from the sea. In the heart of this barren expanse, researchers recently examined a large wooden hull that…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (95+ words) Dia Dhaoibh, a chairde! Thanks for joining me for another video. I really enjoyed exploring Slane, co. Meath this month and finding a few spots there. Please as always leave any feedback or suggestions I love to hear from ye…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1287+ words) Ancient DNA suggests Rome’s fall reshaped Europe through gradual migration and intermarriage, not a sudden barbarian takeover....

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (953+ words) Binghamton anthropologist part of international team that reconstructed 1,000 years of ecological change and human activity image: Scientists lower a hollow metal tube (a freeze core) filled with dry ice and ethanol to collect sediment samples from the lake bottom. Like…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (286+ words) Gondwana is an ancient continent which scientists have now confirmed was a supercontinent that spread over 80 per cent of the landmass on Earth. They found 25,000 ancient rocks, and AI helped them determine that they belonged to Gondwana 500 million years ago....

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (503+ words) A new study pushes back the earliest known millet consumption in Bronze Age Europe by more than a century. Researchers found evidence of millet eating in southeastern Poland around 1590 BCE. The finding comes from a study of human remains from…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (483+ words) Tiny Ions Help DNA Overcome Repulsion Professor Agnes Noy, from the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology at the University of York, co-led the research. She said: "This discovery could help researchers identify regions of the genome specially involved in…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1390+ words) One of the most popular explanations of human behavior has been that somewhere beneath our rational mind lurks an ancient “lizard brain”—a primitive evolutionary holdover responsible for instinct, emotion, fear, and aggression. There is just one problem. Neuroscientists have…...