The fires went on for three relentless days in the summer of 2021, scorching over 13,000 hectares of western Sardinia. Residents “saw their whole world go up in flames around them,” says Carlo Poddi, ...

Researchers have uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was ...

Identifying signs of life in ancient rocks is hard. It is not enough to find organic molecules—rocks of all sorts contain them but “organic” just means the molecules contain chains of carbon atoms.

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world. By Laura Baisas Published Jun 25, 2025 2:00 PM EDT ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in. Every November 23, math lovers celebrate Fibonacci Day, a nod to the ...

Altogether, they reconstructed 11 ancient herpesvirus genomes. The oldest came from a young girl found in southern Italy who ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

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