Yeast is already a familiar ingredient to bakers and winemakers, but new research from the University of Georgia suggests it ...

Sophisticated Pyrotechnology in the Ice Age: This Is How Humans Made Fire Tens ... Bone Tool 'Factory' Hints at Early Development of Abstract Reasoning in Human Ancestors Mar. 5, 2025 — The ...

By including plant foods in their diet, early humans could live in more places, adapt to changing seasons, and support growing social groups. These behaviors likely helped shape modern human society.

If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact ...

Isotope analysis of limestone cave deposits indicates repeated humid periods in the Saharo-Arabian Desert over the past eight million years. The Saharo-Arabian Desert is one of the world’s largest ...

Humans in Argentina may have survived 20,000 years ago by hunting giant armadillos, according to a recent study. This ...

Research by the National Museum of Natural Science confirmed that Denisovans — a species of archaic humans — inhabited Penghu 100,000 years ago, revealing for the first time their presence outside ...

A quiet dig in Romania unearthed more than ancient bones it cracked open our understanding of when and how humans first stepped into Europe. What seemed like a routine fossil find turned out to be a ...

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

Deep Learning Algorithm Used to Pinpoint Potential Disease-Causing Variants in Non-Coding Regions of the Human Genome Apr. 17, 2025 — Researchers have successfully employed an algorithm to ...

These repeated techniques suggest that early humans in different regions were not isolated but part of a broader network of knowledge-sharing. Whether through seasonal migration ... and adaptability ...