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: ...

What they had, it turns out, is the oldest intact climate record ever recovered in Western Europe — a continuous chemical ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

For decades, the "clathrate gun hypothesis" was treated by the mainstream scientific establishment as a fringe nightmare—a scenario where warming oceans and thawing permafrost would release massive ...

A paleontological assessment of fossil assemblage at Panaiyur in Thoothukudi district reveals that it belongs to the middle to late Holocene period, approximately 8,000 to 12,000 years ago. The ...