They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them. The oldest sample they identified as biological was 3.3bn years old—twice ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

A thirty-year scientific partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people, in the Xingu Indigenous Territory in Mato ...

Radiance" reflects the artist's investigations into ultra-contemporary materials and ancient Japanese cosmologies.

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It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in. Every November 23, math lovers celebrate Fibonacci Day, a nod to the ...

For several hours on a recent Friday morning, a Yale laboratory became a Bronze Age brewery. Inside the lab, in the Yale Chemistry Research Building, a group of students attempted to recreate beers of ...

Man lived roughly 4,500-4,800 years ago in pharaonic Egypt His remains were placed in ceramic vessel in rock-cut tomb Obtaining DNA from ancient Egyptian remains has been hard July 2 (Reuters) - DNA ...

A new genetic study of the ancient Chinese city of Shimao reveals a strictly patrilineal society that practised ...

NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed life-linked sugars, a mysterious gum-like substance and even grains of ancient stardust.