The identification of a new hominin group called Denisovans was one of the most exciting discoveries in human evolution in the last decade. Unlike Neanderthal remains, the Denisovan fossil record ...

A team of researchers from University College London and the Cyprus Institute’s Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center has solved a major piece of the puzzle that makes up ...

The poorly understood ‘matalafi’ — the homogenate of Psychotria insularum leaves (fresh leaf juice) — is widely used in Samoan traditional medicine to treat inflammation associated with fever, body ...

”Our newly-devised model stretches the galaxy formation time by a several billion years, making the Universe 26.7 billion years old, and not 13.7 as previously estimated,” said University of Ottawa’s ...

In a new study, scientists sequenced and analyzed the genomes of two 36,000-37,000-year-old individuals from the site of Buran-Kaya III in Crimea, Ukraine.

The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age was a far-flung transformation in world history. Margaryan et al sequenced the genomes of 442 humans from archaeological sites ...