Those who do not learn lessons from history are condemned to repeat the same.” In today’s battle of narratives, it is ...

At the height of its power, the Roman Empire extended as far away as Britain. Rome didn’t view the region as remote or ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

Some DNA passed down from ancient hunter-gatherers has been found to be a crucial force in living to be 100 years old.

An archaeologist’s dream can be a developer’s nightmare. That’s definitely been the case in North Carolina, as the builders ...

Altogether, they reconstructed 11 ancient herpesvirus genomes. The oldest came from a young girl found in southern Italy who ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...

Ancient Egyptians and Etruscans pioneered orthodontics, using delicate gold wires and catgut to straighten teeth.

Forget complicated calorie counting; the world’s longest-living people swear by a simple internal hunger gauge that resets ...

Moss is ancient. It evolved some 470 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur hatched. It is so rudimentary that it ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heat waves that are felt rather than seen, ...