Scientists recover an ancient woman's DNA from a 20,000-year-old pendant

Artifacts made of stone, bones or teeth provide important insights into the subsistence strategies of early…

New tusk-analysis techniques reveal surging testosterone in male woolly mammoths

Traces of sex hormones extracted from a woolly mammoth’s tusk provide the first direct evidence that…

Bacteria can discard damage to survive antibiotic treatment, shows study

It’s the quiet bacteria that you’ve got to watch out for, the bacteria that can survive…

Fossils or not? Nations split on how to meet climate goals

Senior officials from dozens of nations meeting in Berlin remained divided Wednesday on how to meet…

'Gluing' soft materials without glue

If you’re a fan of arts and crafts, you’re likely familiar with the messy, sticky, frustration-inducing…

Addressing the growing threat of fungal infections to global food security

Worldwide, growers lose between 10 and 23% of their crops to fungal infection each year, despite…

Evidence-based paper calls for corporal punishment ban

Corporal punishment should be prohibited nationally and supported by a public education campaign and greater access…

Astronomers find distant gas clouds with leftovers of the first stars

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), researchers have found, for the first time, the fingerprints left…

Indigenous people living near oil fields in the Peruvian Amazon have high levels of metals in their urine

Indigenous communities living near oil exploration sites in the Peruvian Amazon have high levels of mercury,…

Sand dunes offer clues to coastal erosion and how to prevent it

The 200 million Europeans who live in coastal zones are already feeling the impact of global…