This week in science: The Sun is flaring up unexpectedly; a 60-year diabetes mystery may finally be solved; the oldest human ...

The remains have now been identified as Marion Vinetta Nagle McWhorter, who went missing in 1974 after she was last seen at ...

In what is now Shandong, eastern China, researchers have discovered one of the oldest matrilineal societies known to science, ...

The prehistoric caves of India are a treasure trove of more than just archaeological artifacts. They bear witness to the ...

Her mother was Alaska Native of the Ahtna Athabascan people. She had been named for an aunt who died in a boarding school for Indigenous children in Alaska in 1940.

An international team of researchers has studied the diversity and evolution of prehistoric horses that inhabited Europe between 1.6 and 1.4 million years ago. The study, focused on fossils from three ...

Nestled in the verdant embrace of Humboldt County, just a short drive south of Eureka, lies a town so perfectly preserved in Victorian splendor that you’ll swear you’ve wandered onto the set of a ...

Scientists have discovered what's thought to be the oldest mummies in the world in southeastern Asia. Mummification prevents ...

Pune: The prehistoric geoglyphs of the Konkan coast — presented for World Heritage Sites nomination — could date back as far ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

As proposed, the agency would allow up to four trips a month led by “trusted” guides into Mystery Cave, although not between ...

One particularly memorable account of failure there described temperatures of twenty degrees below zero and winds that drove ...