STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Herb Society will delve into the dark side of botanical history when it presents Ancient Poisons at its Oct. 27 meeting at the Biddle House in Tottenville.

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been a critical turning point for life on Earth. For evolutionary biologists, what most distinguishes the ...

Aylwyn Scally, a researcher in human evolutionary genetics at the University of Cambridge, discusses an ancient skull that could rewrite the timeline of human evolution. VIDEO: 'Stupid Motorist Law' ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the text on the Rosetta stone, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization. The stone had been ...

In part two of How YouTube Ate TV, Fast Company’s oral history of YouTube, we look at how the company’s rapid ascent after its 2005 founding led to multiple challenges, from bandwidth costs to unhappy ...

The norm is for ancient dugouts found in southern Florida to be linked to ancestors of the Calusa, the Seminole or the Miccosukee. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a ...

Archaeologists have discovered a sunken ancient port off the coast of Egypt, which they believe likely served as a major maritime hub during the time of Cleopatra VII, the country's last pharaoh. The ...

Archaeologists in Romania have unearthed an elite Roman family's ancient treasure, buried for centuries beneath the remains of a millennia-old city. The discovery, announced by the National History ...

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