Category Science

If you’ve ever wondered whether the food on your plate could shape your brain’s future, the science is starting to say: yes, it might. While healthy eating has long been…

Some of the first hunter-gatherers to arrive in Colombia — and some of the first hunter-gatherers to arrive in all of South America — didn’t stick around. They appeared, then…

Footprints that stroll through a patchy area of Grecian beach 6 million years ago has caused researchers to rethink the timeline of hominin presence outside of Africa. “These are perfectly…

A new study in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology has made the shocking discovery that one of the most famous moments in British history never actually happened. The epic and…

An archeological discovery from the Dra’ Abu el-Naga area on Luxor’s West Bank reveals three new tombs of prominent statesmen from Egypt’s New Kingdom era (1550 B.C.E. to 1070 B.C.E.). …

We hear it everywhere — from doctors, family members, and the media: reduce stress! Mounting evidence shows how chronic stress takes a toll on both physical and mental health. But…

When imagining what archaeologists find during excavations of ancient human remains, we might think only of bones — dry, silent, and skeletal clues to our past. But under ideal conditions,…

A new study in Science suggests that changes in a gene in Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, could’ve added to the length of two plague pandemics, including the…

It would be easy to assume that the bigger an animal’s eyes, the better they must work. However, a new study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B:…

Key Takeaways on Deep Ocean Exploration: We have visually explored less than 0.001 percent of the deep sea floor. To put that in perspective, 66 percent of the planet is…