1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (818+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered a limestone building that belongs to the long-lost temple of King Apries. The discovery anchors one of Egypt's missing royal monuments to a defined sector of the ancient capital and restores a pharaoh's presence to its historic…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (924+ words) Most people with non-African ancestry carry a small amount of Neanderthal DNA scattered across their genomes. But there's a long-standing mystery: the X chromosome is strangely empty of it. For years, scientists assumed that natural selection scrubbed away harmful Neanderthal…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (973+ words) For decades, several Stone Age graves in Sweden were described as simple, even stark. No elaborate grave goods. No preserved garments. Just bones in the soil. Now, researchers have discovered that the soil itself was holding onto a secret. Tiny…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (809+ words) A new medical review suggests that preeclampsia " a life-threatening pregnancy complication involving high blood pressure " may have played a role in the disappearance of Neanderthals. This extinct human group once lived across Europe and western Asia before modern humans spread…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (846+ words) Construction crews widening Hungary's M1 motorway have uncovered more than one hundred graves and a small settlement attributed to the Avars. These powerful, nomadic people ruled much of Central Europe between the eighth and eleventh centuries. The find fixes a long-vanished…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (956+ words) For decades, scientists have tried to pinpoint when our ancestors first left Africa and spread into Eurasia. It is a turning point that reshaped human evolution. Now, new evidence from northern Israel suggests that moment came earlier than many believed....

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (766+ words) Even when asked to rely on expert knowledge, popular AI programs still create images and stories of Neanderthals, an extinct human relative who lived in Europe and parts of Asia tens of thousands of years ago, that look like outdated…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (797+ words) A Maya city long believed to have been abandoned after a devastating drought has emerged as evidence that hundreds of people continued living within its ruined core for generations." That finding reframes collapse not as sudden disappearance, but as a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1031+ words) For decades, evolution has often been taught as a simple story: individuals compete, and the fittest traits win. But a sweeping review of nearly 50 years of research suggests that this story is incomplete. The researchers compiled evidence from 280 empirical studies....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (922+ words) Life in the trees shaped the bodies of early primates in powerful ways. A new study shows that climbing down trees, not just climbing up, played an important role in the evolution of upright postures. By studying how modern tree-dwelling…...