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Credit: Springer Nature Switzerland AG The race between the USSR and the USA in the 1960s to put the first man on the moon still fascinates people today. Countless movies, series, and exhibitions have all portrayed the nations'…

Big data analyses suggest that moralizing gods are rather the product than the drivers of social complexityCredit: (c) the authors of the paper (Vienna, March 20, 2019) An international research team, including a member of the Complexity…

Credit: David Mearns Guinness World Records have independently certified an astrolabe excavated from the wreck site of a Portuguese Armada Ship that was part of Vasco da Gama's second voyage to India in 1502-1503 as the oldest in…

Sungyoung Kim will lead 'The Soundscape Project' to preserve aural heritage Advanced audio technologies being developed are helping to preserve the unique sounds of historic sites from recording studios in Nashville, Tenn., to a…

The findings, published in Science, show an invasion of steppe descendants who replaced almost all men 4,000 years ago Published in the journal Science, it analysed the genomes of 271 inhabitants of the peninsula from different historical…

Diet-induced changes in the human bite resulted in new sounds such as "f" in languages all over the world, a study by an international team led by researchers at the University of Zurich has shown. The findings contradict the theory that…

Multi-isotope analysis reveals that feasts in the Stonehenge environs and across Wessex drew people and animals from throughout BritainCredit: Cardiff University A mutli-isotope analysis of pigs remains found around henge…

New book evaluates the achievements of the Trump administration The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump is one of the first rigorous studies of the 45th president. The authors explore Trump's election and track record since his…

Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the PampasCredit: Gustavo Politis and Pablo Messineo By re-dating giant ground sloth remains found in the Argentinian Pampas region using more…

The largest sacrifice of its kind known from the Americas was associated with heavy rainfall and floodingCredit: John Verano (2019) A mass sacrifice at a 15th century archaeological site in Peru saw the ritual killing of over 140 children…