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Through fossilized tooth enamel, scientists are reconstructing the diets and landscapes that existed millions of years ago.

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

No direct hits are required; shock waves from a jet can ripple across hundreds of thousands of light-years to churn galactic ...

There is strong scientific consensus surrounding this story and it is informed by multiple converging lines of evidence.

Aristotle believed the planets revolved around Earth and God could not have created other worlds. Today, scientists scour the ...

Humans carry a surprising relic from deep evolutionary history, one that traces back to a tiny, one-eyed ancestor that lived ...

Using synchrotron X-ray CT scans of a fossilized, intact embryo, researchers found evidence that the plant-eating mammal ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

Award winning duo James S. A. Corey show humanity’s struggle with staggering alien power in their latest installment of the ...