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Scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science used a powerful combination of cutting-edge chemistry and artificial ...

The launch of the Data Research Center marks a new phase in ISAC’s evolution into a 21st-century research institute where ...

Deep in some of Earth’s oldest rocks, traces of ancient life still linger, even when every cell has crumbled. You would not ...

For millions of years, scientists believed the rift between Africa and Asia had ceased its tectonic pull. But recent findings ...

The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ...

Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark — Professor Amelia Villaseñor, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, was a part of a team that discovered 2.75 million-year-old stone tools in Kenya.

For many years, the history of how the First Americans arrived in North America was a little unclear. The general notion was that humans traveled across a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska some ...

When Thérèse M’Boungoubaya set out to launch her bodycare brand Koba, she knew she wanted it to be rooted in natural, African-sourced ingredients — a nod to her Congolese roots (both her parents were ...

LOS CORTIJOS, Spain (AP) — The bells and bleats faded as Osam Abdulmumen, a migrant from Sudan, herded sheep back from pasture, the sun setting over a centuries-old farm in Spain’s arid heartland.