Tag: History

The open oceans are harsh and hostile environments where insects might not be expected to thrive. In fact, only one ...

The discovery of a Roman road submerged in the Venice Lagoon is reported in Scientific Reports this week. The findings ...

Archaeologists find the answer in rabbit social behaviorCredit: Nawa Sugiyama/UCR Domesticated rabbits come in all sizes and colors, including tiny ...

Throughout history, people of different cultures and stages of evolution have found ways to adapt, with varying success, to the ...

Credit: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Zanjan Cultural Heritage Centre, Archaeological Museum of Zanjan. A team of geneticists and archaeologists from ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the ...

Jessica Hurley, Assistant Professor, English, will receive $35,000 from the National Humanities Center for a fellowship supporting her book project, ...

Greater trauma burden linked with PTSD, poorer mental healthCredit: National Archives Lesbian, gay, and bisexual Veterans from the Vietnam era ...

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 ...

Paper offers foundation to advance search for Leonardo's DNACredit: Alessandro Vezzosi and Agnese Sabato The surprising results of a decade-long ...

Credit: We are grateful to L. E. Stager and D. Master, directors of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, and ...

Credit: Omri Lernau Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilised shark teeth in an area where there should be ...

Credit: Jeff Gage/Florida Museum of Natural History GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Archaeologists have unearthed a rare trove of more than 80 ...

Credit: Produced by Mary Jane Bruce, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska, July 1, 2021 -- Carrie Heitman can still remember ...

Researchers use genetic and isotopic data to investigate human mobility at the Bronze Age city of Alalakh in TurkeyCredit: Murat ...

Dinosaurs roamed the Earth more than 65 million years ago, and paleontologists and amateur fossil hunters are still unearthing traces ...

Credit: Melkior Ornik Aerospace engineering faculty member Melkior Ornik is also a mathematician, a history buff, and a strong believer ...

Ancient Rome's emperors did some pretty bizarre stuff--bursting into uncontrollable fits of laughter, appointing a horse as a priest, dressing ...

Dramatic discovery in Israeli excavationCredit: Tel Aviv University The discovery of a new Homo group in this region, which resembles ...

Credit: Avi Levin and Ilan Theiler, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Analysis of recently discovered fossils ...