A team of biologists from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has identified the first fossil of an ant of the ...

Few people will not have heard of Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler who, between the 13th and 14th centuries, traveled ...

After nearly a decade of meticulous research, the archaeological team from the University of Alicante (UA) has completed the ...

The latest excavation campaign at Uşaklı Höyük, a mound rising on the arid central Anatolian plateau, has unearthed a discovery that could rewrite forgotten aspects of Hittite society: the remains of ...

Sometimes, nature shapes and creates forms so perfect they can fool even the most trained eyes. This is the case with phenomena known as geofacts—a term that combines geology and artifact—a type of ...

In the summer of 2024, during rescue excavations linked to the installation of an electric cable in the municipality of Kapitan Petko Voyvoda, in southern Bulgaria and just a few kilometers from the ...

For decades, biology textbooks have taught us that primates — the group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans — originated in warm tropical rainforests. But a study published in the journal PNAS by ...

An international team of scientists has successfully identified for the first time, with direct genetic evidence, the microbes that contributed to the catastrophic death toll among Napoleon’s soldiers ...

An international team of researchers has identified what could be the first artificial memory systems created by humans, carved into bones tens of thousands of years ago. These findings, published in ...

The underground shrine at Paestum, southern Italy, where the vessels containing the residue were found. Credit: Diego Delso / Wikimedia Commons A team of chemists and archaeologists from the ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen has found that in Murayghat, Jordan, a fascinating Early Bronze Age site (approximately 5,000 years ago), human groups gathered to honor ...

At the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt, a team of researchers has achieved a feat that until now had remained beyond experimental reach: measuring the ...