For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...

A comprehensive new study shows that Europe’s landscapes have been shaped by grasslands and open woodlands for more than 20 ...

Four huge glaciers could soon disappear entirely in the iconic state of California. They have existed for millennia and could ...

We face not just metabolic rifts, but metabolic chasms, writes Ian Angus in this excerpt from his new book, Metabolic Rifts: ...

A recent study published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology documented skeletal changes linked to scurvy in ...

Human brains have been shrinking since prehistoric times, some studies suggest. Whether this is true and why it has happened ...

Sediment samples from the seafloor have yielded ancient DNA evidence of a temperate forest that thrived in what is now the ...

Millet has been an important crop in East Asia for much of the Holocene, a period beginning about 11,700 years ago. To better ...

A new study reveals how responsive the Greenland ice sheet is to climate change – more so than models predict. Methane has ...

The ancient city of Napata, located in what is now northern Sudan, stood for centuries as a powerful urban and cultural center of the Kingdom of Kush. A new study explains how the city owed its ...

Lake sediments deposited over the Holocene form detailed archives of environmental change, capturing fluctuations in climate, hydrology and ecosystem dynamics at a variety of temporal scales. Physical ...