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Cluster of Alaskan Islands Could Be Single, Interconnected Giant Volcano

Dec. 3, 2020 — A small group of volcanic islands in Alaska's Aleutian chain might be part of a single, undiscovered giant volcano, say scientists. If the researchers' suspicions are correct, the newfound volcanic ...

Secrets of the 'Lost Crops' Revealed Where Bison Roam

Nov. 24, 2020 — Blame it on the bison. If not for the wooly, boulder-sized beasts that once roamed North America in vast herds, ancient people might have looked past the little barley that grew under those ...

New Light on Polar Explorer's Last Hours

Nov. 24, 2020 — Chemical analyzes of a black spot in a diary shed new light on the destiny and tragic death of legendary Inuit polar expedition member Jørgen Brønlund in Northeast Greenland in ...

Science Reveals Secrets of a Mummy's Portrait

Nov. 21, 2020 — How much information can you get from a speck of purple pigment, no bigger than the diameter of a hair, plucked from an Egyptian portrait that's nearly 2,000 years old? Plenty, according to a new ...

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Geoscientists Discover Ancestral Puebloans Survived from Ice Melt in New Mexico Lava Tubes

Nov. 18, 2020 — New study explains how Ancestral Puebloans survived devastating droughts by traveling deep into the caves of New Mexico to melt ancient ice as a ...

The Unique Hydraulics in the Barbegal Water Mills, the World's First Industrial Plant

Nov. 13, 2020 — The Barbegal watermills in southern France are a unique complex dating back to the 2nd century AD. The construction with 16 waterwheels is, as far as ...

Indian Fossils Support New Hypothesis for Origin of Hoofed Mammals

Nov. 7, 2020 — New research describes a fossil family that illuminates the origin of perissodactyls - the group of mammals that includes horses, rhinos, and tapirs. It provides insights on the controversial ...

Population Dynamics and the Rise of Empires in Inner Asia

Nov. 5, 2020 — Researchers seek to understand the genetic, sociopolitical and cultural changes surrounding the formation of the eastern Eurasian Steppe's historic empires. The study analyzes genome-wide data for ...

Population Dynamics and the Rise of Empires in Inner Asia

Nov. 5, 2020 — Researchers sought to understand the genetic, sociopolitical and cultural changes surrounding the formation of the eastern Eurasian Steppe's historic empires. The study analyzed genome-wide data for ...

Bronze Age Travel Routes Revealed Using Pioneering Research Method

Nov. 4, 2020 — Archaeologists have reconstructed the ancient seasonal migration routes of Bronze Age herders in Xinjiang, north-western China. Their research was the result of innovative methodology. To determine ...

New Research Traces the Origins of Trench Fever

Nov. 4, 2020 — Trench fever was first clinically described in World War 1 when it sickened nearly 500,000 soldiers. New DNA evidence proves the disease predates that time period by thousands of ...

Sea-Level Rise Will Have Complex Consequences

Nov. 4, 2020 — Rising sea levels will affect coasts and human societies in complex and unpredictable ways, according to a new study that examined 12,000 years in which a large island became a cluster of smaller ...

Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: Archaeological Investigations Reveal Human Adaptability in Ancient Turkey

Oct. 29, 2020 — An examination of two documented periods of climate change in the greater Middle East, between approximately 4,500 and 3,000 years ago, reveals local ...

Denisovan DNA in the Genome of Early East Asians

Oct. 29, 2020 — Researchers analyzed the genome of the oldest human fossil found in Mongolia to date and show that the 34,000-year-old woman inherited around 25 percent of her DNA from western Eurasians, ...