2+ day, 9+ 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…...

2+ day, 13+ 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…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (829+ words) By analyzing sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) samples found preserved in the lake bottom sediment, scientists were able to reconstruct a diverse, high-resolution dataset of the entire ecosystem surrounding the lake – including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi – and map changes over…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (972+ words) By analyzing sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) samples found preserved in the lake bottom sediment, scientists were able to reconstruct a diverse, high-resolution dataset of the entire ecosystem surrounding the lake – including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi – and map changes over…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (779+ words) Nothing about the job suggested that the day would end with a prehistoric discovery. In a soybean field in Michigan, a farmer was digging a trench to install a new drainage pipe when his backhoe suddenly struck something that did…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (713+ words) In the most comprehensive survey of natural selection across our closest living relatives to date, an international team of researchers has mapped the genomic landscapes of adaptation in six great ape lineages, revealing new candidate genes tied to senses, immunity,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (144+ words) A rare bodily phenomenon may explain how the mummification process preserved her expression of agony for eternity. Her embalmers moved quickly enough to preserve her final spasm before it could fade—and in doing so, preserved a mystery that CT…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (458+ words) On the northern bank of the Yassy River beneath the Fergana Mountains, the ruins of Shorobashat in Kyrgyzstan are offering new clues to the region's ancient past, thanks to a joint effort by Chinese and Kyrgyz archaeologists. The collaborative archaeological…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (744+ words) BEIRUT — How did humanity move from drawings carved on cave walls to the alphabet we use today? Who invented writing? Why does the alphabet begin with “aleph, bet”? And how did letters travel from Beth Nahrin (Mesopotamia) to the Phoenicians,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (172+ words) Could the legendary giant of the Ice Age — the woolly mammoth — reappear in the future? The US-based company Colossal Biosciences is studying the DNA of ancient mammoths and working to combine their key traits with the modern elephant genome. The…...