Wooden objects usually decompose quickly, but periodic flooding and minerals in the water helped preserve those at a site ...

In a recent study published in Science Advances, researchers reported important new evidence of Neanderthal woodworking at ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered new evidence illuminating the evolutionary origins of one of the defining ...

The Yumin people thrived in the forest-steppe transition zone with mixed hunting, foraging and limited farming as a diversified survival strategy. On New Year's Eve, Chinese President Xi Jinping ...

US officials canceled NASA’s ambitious Mars Sample Return program, leaving potential evidence of ancient life sitting on Mars ...

Traces of lead could make Herculaneum scrolls readable by X-ray, and a handheld scanner can pick out which ones carry it.

Scientists did not arrive at Earth’s age from one clue. Several very different measurements keep pointing toward the same ...

Conventional wisdom sets 10,000 steps per day as a good target. That source of that number, though, is as questionable as ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has travelled farther than any other vehicle on a world beyond Earth, The New York Times reports.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has set a new record for the longest distance driven on another world, surpassing a mark held by the Opportunity rover for more than a decade. This was reported ...

Spread the loveImagine holding in your hand a piece of Mars, knowing it might contain the fossilized whisper of ancient alien life. Now imagine that treasure, collected with painstaking effort and ...