An international team of researchers published a study in the journal Science, revealing new insights into sheep domestication and its profound impact on human civilization. Led by Dr. Kevin Daly, the ...

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.

Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

This reconstructed visage of "Dragon Man" from the Harbin Skull is linked to a group of early humans called the Denisovans.

The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the northeast by a prehistoric meteor impact crater. When you purchase through ...

Wildfires like the Los Angeles blazes destroy so much, but they often spare some evidence of the cause of their ignition ...

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

Buffalo Trace Distillery just revealed the second edition of its Prohibition Collection, an annual limited-edition lineup of five bottles honoring the whiskeys that were legally produced and sold ...

ABSTRACT: This study evaluates the dynamics of trace metals impacts on the ecosystems of the Bartlett Pond, a small shallow wetland pond located in Laredo, Texas by analyzing sediment samples taken ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Most surfaces in cars retain methamphetamine traces after smoking, posing a third-hand exposure risk to subsequent users. Testing of two vehicles revealed meth ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...