Arabian cheetah mummies' DNA reveals that the long-lost population could be closely replaced by a cheetah population in ...

The pre-Roman baths of Pompeii would have been seriously grotty, according to an analysis of mineral deposits.

Texas is steeped in a rich history of land ownership and storytelling, much of which is found not in written records but ...

For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too ...

Towards the end of the last ice age, an ancient wolf feasted on a young woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). When the ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

What can we learn from a Pompeii construction site preserved in ash? Plus, tech companies look to build solar-powered data ...

The “Trees, Time and Technology” show opening next week at the di Rosa center weaves together history, feminism, Judaica and ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

Two renowned prehistoric individuals were likely infected with a human papillomavirus that has been linked to several cancers ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...