“Our findings combined with prior research indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...

Scientists are tracing ancient helium trapped beneath South Africa’s gold fields, revealing how rare gas survives for ...

A fossilized ant and fly preserved in 99-million-year-old amber have revealed one of the oldest known examples of parasitic ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

Scientists found ancient bone chemistry that reveals animal health, diet, disease, and environments from millions of years ago.

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

This photo provided by João Zilhão shows forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared to have features from both humans and Neanderthals. (João Zilhão via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...