Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

The pre-Roman baths of Pompeii would have been seriously grotty, according to an analysis of mineral deposits.

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

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

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Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

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An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct ...

If one were to stumble upon the thought of ancient technology, it would be hard to think of anything as advanced as the Antikythera mechanism. This tiny device which has, several times, been claimed ...

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 ...

Skin care in Native American cultures developed through centuries of environmental observation, trial, and biological ...