For thousands of years, keeping a healthy smile was less about hygiene and more about survival. Before modern medicine, ...

An analysis of ancient bones found in a Chinese cave offer glimpses of how Denisovans lived more than 130,000 years ago ...

Ancient human remains from Sulawesi suggest people were habitually using the psychoactive betel nut as far back as 25,000 years ago. Researchers found both unusual tooth wear and traces of arecoline, ...

This relatively recent finding extends the timeline of the use of betel nuts thousands of years into the past, far into the ...

Experts race to start new dig at ancient Bronze Age site before it’s lost to climate change - ‘If we don’t excavate it in the ...

Humans everywhere use mind-altering substances, from stimulants and narcotics to hallucinogens. Yet surprisingly little is ...

From Naruto to Hunter x Hunter, discover 6 anime with worldbuilding deeper than the Mariana Trench, ranked by scale, history, ...

Researchers recovered sheeppox virus DNA from ancient parchment and Bronze Age sheep remains. The findings trace the livestock disease across millennia and may aid pathogen research.

Ancient DNA suggests Rome’s fall reshaped Europe through gradual migration and intermarriage, not a sudden barbarian takeover ...

An international team of scientists, including Donald Danforth Plant Science Center member emerita Elizabeth "Toby" Kellogg, ...

Astronomers have detected an exceptionally faint hydrogen radio signal from billions of light-years away using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope. Instead of finding galaxies one at a time, the ...

From the Vredefort Dome in South Africa (the world’s oldest and largest known meteorite-impact structure) to the volcanic lakes of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, Africa’s landscapes hold some of ...