灵长类动物学家正在利用遗传分析来确定埃及发现的古代木乃伊狒狒的地理起源。研究小组发现的证据表明，蓬特和阿杜利斯这两个传奇贸易区可能是相隔一千年历史的同一个地方。

最新研究表明，经过近两年的战斗，战争正在以二战以来从未见过的规模摧毁乌克兰的文化遗产。

Utrecht University geologist Suzanna van de Lagemaat has reconstructed a massive and previously unknown tectonic plate that was once one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean. Her colleagues in Utrecht had predicted its existence over 10 years ago based o

An international team of scientists have discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analysing ancient tree-rings found in the French Alps.  

The hunt for the world's most ancient mammals descended into academic warfare in the seventies, researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered.

New analysis of the remains of victims of the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, contradicts the widespread belief the flu disproportionately impacted healthy young adults.

In September 2023, extreme rains struck South Africa's Western Cape province, flooding villages and leaving a trail of destruction. The catastrophic devastation is just one recent example in a string of extreme weather events that are growing more common

Evolutionary biologists have for the first time decoded the genetic lineage of a famous killer whale and a pod that once worked alongside whale hunters off the coast of New South Wales.

People who carry three gene variants that have been inherited from Neanderthals are more sensitive to some types of pain, according to a new study co-led by UCL researchers.

DNA analysis of mummified feces reveals two pre-Columbian Caribbean cultures ate a wide variety of plants, like maize, sweet potato, and peanuts -- and tobacco and cotton traces were detected too, according to a study published October 11, 2023 in the ope

As the climate warms, there is major concern that Earth's ocean will lose oxygen. A study published recently by oceanographers at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa revealed that locked in ancient deep-sea sediments is evidence for oxygen loss in the wo

Leonardo da Vinci is renowned to this day for innovations in fields across the arts and sciences. Now, new analyses published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society show that his taste for experimentation extended even to the base layers