Join paleontologist Harrison Duran in "Unearthing Giants: The Hunt for a Complete Triceratops." Watch as he embarks on an exhilarating journey to uncover a fossilized Triceratops pubis bone and solve ...

The astrolabe, an intricate brass instrument made in 11th century Spain, was used for charting the position of the stars. NMS ...

Deep drilling beneath Antarctic ice reveals signs that the region was once an open ocean millions of years ago.

New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...

Discover the evolution of economics from ancient times to modern theories that influence global markets, including Adam Smith and Keynesian approaches.

An article by Mississippi State Professor of Anthropology Molly Zuckerman and her graduate student Lydia Bailey has been published in Science, one of the foremost scientific journals in the world.

A toxic plant linked to 60,000-year-old arrows changes what we know about early humans. The discovery reveals unexpected ...

Freeze-drying is a case in point—a technology so fundamental to modern medicine that its absence would have rewritten the twentieth century, yet so invisible that few know its name or its makers.

12,000-Year-Old Oregon Discovery Predating Egypt’s Great Pyramid Suggests Early Americans Were 'Far More Advanced' ...

In a cave in Romania, scientists found a bacterial strain entombed in ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. But it may also help fight superbugs.

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic.

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually ...