Archaeologists identified tools made from whale bone dating back 20,000 years. These artifacts indicate early coastal ...

Gladys Nilsson subverts ageist myths, letters from children in ICE detention, Heathcliff and whiteness, Toñita at the Super Bowl, Japanese incense clocks, and more.

A new analysis of “il Principe,” an ancient, decorated skeleton found in northwest Italy, confirms that the child died up to ...

We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral ...

Researchers led by the University of Vienna and Liège University Hospital Centre have identified genetic variants associated ...

Researchers identified the earliest case of a genetic disease with the help of DNA: ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

The research team revisited the remains of the richly buried adolescent from Arene Candide Cave in Liguria, northwest Italy, using detailed surface inspection and microscopic assessment of healing.

Researchers led by the University of Vienna and Liège University Hospital Centre have identified genetic variants associated ...

Scientists analyzing ancient DNA from a 12,000-year-old double burial in southern Italy uncovered genetic evidence of a rare inherited growth disorder in two closely related prehistoric individuals. A ...

Edge-to-edge bite (left), Upper Paleolithic skull, Arene Candide cave, Italy; Overbite (right), Early Bronze Age skull, Hainburg, Austria Try saying “f” and “v” and pay close attention to your lower ...