8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (127+ words) Carles Lalueza-Fox is a leading research expert on the retrieval and analysis of ancient genomes, including extinct hominins, past human populations, and pathogens. He is Director of the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona and the author of several books, including…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (609+ words) Diamond sensors reveal processes from long ago. The last flames kindled by Neanderthals died tens of thousands of years ago. But fire leaves traces behind — not only charcoal and ash, but also tiny magnetic changes locked inside minerals. Researchers have…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (596+ words) A 200-year-old runic Lord’s Prayer found in Ontario defies easy explanation....

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (420+ words) It's only one of three surviving Roman era hats. The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made for a Roman soldier stationed in the searing heat of…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (554+ words) CT scans uncovered a fish hook that likely killed a sacred crocodile thousands of years ago. This ancient crocodile never finished its last meal. More than 2,000 years after it died, researchers can still make out a small fish inside its…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1201+ words) Home → Features → Culture → Culture & Society Before the internet, Victorian innovators used the electric telegraph to play chess across the world. On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (595+ words) Home → Science → Paleontology A newly discovered dinosaur carried hollow spikes never seen before in its kind. A fossil discovered in northeastern China has revealed unusual skin structures in an ornithischian dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago. The skin impressions…...