C hemicals in furniture and children’s toys could impact the quality of your sleep. New research shows that chemicals hidden ...

Modern HIV medicine is based on a common genetic mutation. Now, researchers have traced where and when the mutation arose -- and how it protected our ancestors from ancient diseases.

Today, piles of ancient oyster shells are noticeable to ... Sapelo Island is made up of around 1.6 billion oyster shells. “Human action is interwoven into the landscape,” Thompson says.

Over the last 20 years, genetic research has changed dramatically. An explosion of genomic data has reshaped how we ...

Before Heilung, God Of War, and the endless onslaught of Viking TV shows, Wardruna were the force reviving Nordic traditions ...

Scholars and researchers from diverse fields convened to discuss topics such as human migration tracing ... was where two fossils of ancient human teeth were discovered in 1965. These fossils date ...

A group of archaeologists and scientists, led by Professor Karen Hardy from the University of Glasgow, has discovered ...

Bird Migration Is Peaking in the U.S.—Here’s How to Watch The spectacle of spring bird migration is in full swing, and you ...

In the United Kingdom, archaeologists have found 41 human skeletons, mostly of women, from around 500 to 600 AD. These remains, found in south Wales, give a rare look into the Early Medieval ...

If you’ve ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one ... resulting from species’ competition, migration and something called an assimilation ...

A study conducted by an international team of scientists from the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean analyzed ancient human remains from ... through ...