There's a psychedelic Renaissance underway as psychoactive substances like psilocybin, DMT, and MDMA are making headway into ...

A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.

Two recent studies have cast doubt on a popular theory that the ancient residents of Easter Island suffered a societal ...

In the southern Pacific Ocean, far off the coast of Chile, lies the remote island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island. Since the ...

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

Horses were the primary means of locomotion for travel, communication, agriculture, and warfare across much of the ancient ...

A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles revealed nearly 9-million-year-old sea creature fossils buried ...

In June 2023, an archaeological find in the Peloponnese rewrote ancient Greek history, in one of the most sensational ...

DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was ...

An ancient building in modern-day Syria has long been considered an example of what is known as a domestic “house church.” But a new study challenges this idea. Since its discovery by modern ...