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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

“While Homo erectus, our distant ancestor, is widely recognized to have originated in Africa before dispersing into Eurasia, ...

Archeologists found evidence that ancient Romans may have used a medical treatment involving perfume... and human feces.

See ancient Roman and Greek art at the stunning Getty Villa or take the little ones to the La Brea Tar Pits for a bit of ...