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The first humans who settled in Scandinavia more than 10,000 years ago left their DNA behind in ancient …

Which came first, the pigs or the pioneers? In Barbados, that has been a historical mystery ever since …

NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary …

Archaeologists have discovered 15 new sites in Laos containing more than 100 1000-year-old massive stone jars possibly used …

Statistical analysis of fossil data shows that it is unlikely that Australopithecus sediba, a nearly 2-million-year-old apelike fossil from …

Approximately every two Earth years, when it is summer on the southern hemisphere of Mars, a window opens: …

Even thousands of years ago people wore clothing with colorful patterns made from plant- and animal-based dyes. Chemists …

Humans settled in southwestern Amazonia and even experimented with agriculture much earlier than previously thought, according to an …

Astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole almost 8,000 light-years from Earth. Published today …

History can tell us a lot about the Crusades, the series of religious wars fought between 1095 and …