Archaeology: Roman road discovered in the Venice lagoon
The discovery of a Roman road submerged in the Venice Lagoon is reported in Scientific Reports this week. The findings ...
Tag: Anthropology
New study confirms relationship between toxic pollution, climate risks to human health
Credit: University of Notre Dame For more than 30 years, scientists on the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have ...
Why weren’t New World rabbits domesticated?
Archaeologists find the answer in rabbit social behaviorCredit: Nawa Sugiyama/UCR Domesticated rabbits come in all sizes and colors, including tiny ...
Study highlights need to replace ‘ancestry’ in forensics with something more accurate
Credit: Marc Hall, NC State University A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in ...
DNA from 1,600-year-old Iranian sheep mummy brings history to life
Credit: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Zanjan Cultural Heritage Centre, Archaeological Museum of Zanjan. A team of geneticists and archaeologists from ...
US-wide, non-white neighborhoods are hotter than white ones
Wealthier, whiter urban and small-town residents benefit more from cooling infrastructure and treesCredit: Suzanne Benz WASHINGTON--In cities and towns across ...
Resilience, not collapse: What the Easter Island myth gets wrong
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the ...
Hurley to receive funding for fellowship
Jessica Hurley, Assistant Professor, English, will receive $35,000 from the National Humanities Center for a fellowship supporting her book project, ...
Black hairstyles will inspire innovative building materials in new research
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Natural Black hair texture and styling practices - such a braiding, locking and crocheting - will ...
2D:4D ratio is not related to sex-determined finger size differences in men and women
The ratios between the lengths of the second and fourth fingers, known as the 2D:4D ratio, are different in males ...
Neanderthal artists? Our ancestors decorated bones over 50,000 years ago
Discovery from Unicorn Cave in Lower Saxony sheds new light on ancestors' cognitive abilitiesCredit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EHH-Wiki001_C_GUfeV.JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0) Since the ...
The City of David and the sharks’ teeth mystery
Credit: Omri Lernau Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilised shark teeth in an area where there should be ...
New book highlights need for Chaco Canyon preservation
Credit: Produced by Mary Jane Bruce, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska, July 1, 2021 -- Carrie Heitman can still remember ...
Forget cash! Credit is key to the survival of busking
Electronic and digital payments are the key for buskers and street performers to survive in a post-COVID world, new RMIT ...
Conservatives’ sensitivity to pandemic threat suppressed by distrust of science, media
Researchers studying the intersection of politics and psychology have long documented a link between threat sensitivity and social conservatism: People ...
Where are the Foreigners of the First International Age?
Researchers use genetic and isotopic data to investigate human mobility at the Bronze Age city of Alalakh in TurkeyCredit: Murat ...
Mountaintop glacier ice disappearing in tropics around the world
Icecaps are losing mass rapidly, a new study indicates COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Mountaintop glacier ice in the tropics of all ...
A new type of Homo unknown to science
Dramatic discovery in Israeli excavationCredit: Tel Aviv University The discovery of a new Homo group in this region, which resembles ...
New fossil discovery from Israel points to complicated evolutionary process
Credit: Avi Levin and Ilan Theiler, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Analysis of recently discovered fossils ...
Study explores potential restoration of traditional practices tied to endangered species
Co-production of knowledge can direct recovery and sustainable harvesting of Marianas fruit bat and Micronesian cycadCredit: University of Guam Are ...
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Meteorites likely source of nitrogen for early Earth
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‘Shocking’ discovery: Electricity from electric eels may transfer genetic material to nearby animals
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Scientists build tiny biological robots from human cells
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Elham Azizi vs. cancer: Fighting the disease with data, AI, and math
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New study identifies the greatest threat to wildlife across North America and Canada: people
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Pregnant women are missing vital nutrients needed for them and their babies – and situation could worsen with plant-based foods