A chain of massive earthquakes may have led to the decline and eventual desertion of the pre-Aztec Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan,...
Earth's magnetic field may have been similarly as strong 3.7 billion years ago as it is today, pushing the earliest date for this planetary...
If life is capable of spreading from planet to planet — a concept known as "panspermia" — then we might be able to detect...
Ancient rock carvings in southern Peru could have been made by people high on hallucinogenic drugs, a new study suggests.The carvings...
Modern Japanese people largely descend from three ancestral groups, a new study suggests. The research also reveals genetic ties with...
The murder of sacrificial victims by "incaprettamento" — tying their neck to their legs bent behind their back, so that they...
Women in their early 20s who have been pregnant are "biologically older" than those who have never been pregnant, and by some measures,...
After waves of Homo sapiens left Africa, they left few traces of their whereabouts until they reappeared in Eurasia 20,000 years later....
Do you ever feel spacey, distracted and worn down toward the end of a long work-related task – especially if that task is entirely...
While it’s not uncommon to see players saying and doing things they shouldn’t in the heat of the moment, it would be fair to say...
A Viking Age marketplace may be buried on a Norwegian island, new research suggests.Archaeologists surveying part of the historic island...
What if the world of dark matter was a mirror of our own, just with a broken set of rules? That might explain why dark matter appears...
When the universe’s first stars emerged from the cosmic dark ages, they ballooned to 10,000 times the mass of Earth’s sun, new...
