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 ...

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 ...

“Of all currently known temperate exoplanets, LHS 1140b could well be our best bet to one day indirectly confirm liquid water on the surface of an alien world beyond our Solar System,” said Charles ...

Around 12,800 years ago, Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet, triggering Younger Dryas climate change; this event created environmental conditions at Abu Hureyra, Syria, that ...

The word Viking comes from the Scandinavian term ‘ vikingr ’ meaning ‘ pirate.’ The Viking Age generally refers to the period from 800 CE, a few years after the earliest recorded raid, until the 1050s ...

Pre-contact Central and South American dogs (Canis familiaris) — all dogs preceding contact with European settlers — descended from a single maternal lineage that diverged after dogs entered North ...

Egypt has no domestic silver ore sources and silver is rarely found in the Egyptian archaeological record until the Middle Bronze Age. Bracelets found in the tomb of queen Hetepheres I — mother of ...