Beneath today’s oceans lies a world that once teemed with human life. In the days when glaciers pressed down on continents and sea levels dropped, vast ...
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by Stonehenge’s grandeur. The sarsens tower overhead, imposing and silent, while the smaller bluestones crouch in their shadow, ...
On the rugged, rainforest-covered island of New Guinea, a striking human population carries features that have long puzzled scientists. Their faces bear ...
Many foods humans consume are indigestible or toxic without first being processed. Cassava (also called manioc or yuca), a staple in South America, ...
In a modest sliver of clay, broken and partially erased by time, a story emerges from the city of Nippur in ancient Sumer that offers a window into the ...
When rice farming arrived on Japanese shores around 3,000 years ago, it came not alone. Crossing the sea from the Korean Peninsula, rice was accompanied by ...
Archaeologists are piecing together vivid 1,800-year-old frescoes from “thousands upon thousands upon thousands” of plaster fragments, with no picture on ...
Students became invested in “their article” once they felt the sense of excitement and commitment that the original research and writing inspired in ...
One early morning in August 2024, I boarded a coach bus in downtown San Francisco. We drove over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, past Reno, and through the ...
The human genome is filled with redundancies. Long stretches of DNA repeat themselves in patterns that resemble stuttering speech on a page. For years, ...
In the chill of a glacier, Ötzi the Iceman lay undisturbed for over five millennia. Since his discovery in 1991, the mummified man from the Alps has become ...
"Bright morning light on pond and path around the garden"https://www.flickr.com/photos/mi_shigapics/51427254438/in/album-72157712160299046Thanks to Guven ...
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