Teeth can act as detailed biological records, preserving evidence of health, diet, and stress experienced throughout a person’s life. Teeth can reveal far more than age or appearance. In a recent ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years. One is a spindly stick about ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

A medieval cataract surgery described in Chinese texts may have its roots in India, a Pune-based historian of science and medicine said during a recent talk in Delhi. Vijaya Jayant Deshpande, speaking ...

If you’ve ever sat in the dark at 3 AM, clutching a mouse and staring at a pixels-wide gap in a smoke on Overpass, you know ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

Fledgling universities funded by kings and other leaders hired professors for their chemistry departments. Organic chemistry became a recognized discipline. These developments established an entirely ...

Princeton University has a long history of collecting art; it is one of the oldest collecting institutes in North America.

The extraordinary Philosopher's Stone is not only a legendary artifact, but one of the core elements of the entire narrative.