These are the key pieces of evidence that convinced me something major is missing from our history books. A great starting ...

At the Tayma Oasis in Saudi Arabia stands a rock split with uncanny precision—so sharp it looks like it was sliced by a laser ...

A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Since February 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover has been exploring a ...

Last month, Associate Professor of Archaeology Felipe Rojas and Dartmouth postdoctoral fellow Robert Weiner ’16 MA’16 published their paper “Choreographic empathy beyond human and animal.” The paper ...

After NASA announced it had found potential evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars, imagery supposedly released by the US ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

A mudstone sample from Jezero Crater shows textures and minerals that on Earth often form through microbial activity. Scientists caution that nonbiological processes could also explain the features, ...

New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding evidence of their influence on ancient terrestrial ecosystems. The study, ...