Madagascar’s cliffs, rolling plateaus, and winding rivers weren’t shaped by a single violent event. Instead, the island’s ...

The Ancient Maya may have had large libraries and an advanced writing system, but very little remains today. Indeed, only ...

Data from JWST, together with sophisticated computer simulations, show that 3I/ATLAS has been ... If so, astronomers will be able to directly compare the chemistry of ancient interstellar ice with ...

Ancient viral DNA in bacteria helps block new infections, offering a potential path to fight antibiotic resistance.

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the Universe’s earliest era, known as the cosmic dark ages. Their research ...

Researchers discovered that bacteria use a recombinase enzyme to activate fossil viral DNA and defend against new infections, ...

About 250 million years ago, as life was recovering from Earth’s greatest mass extinction, some reptiles began to change ...

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs – and small groups of people armed with fire ...

The researchers’ reconstruction shows that by mixing four resets at 358 months (the inex cycle) for every one at 223, the ...

As an individual facing today’s wars and geopolitical complexity—witnessing so much suffering—I often feel powerless and sad; ...

These saints from centuries ago still speak urgently with timeless messages on community, knowledge, creativity, ...