Prehistoric rock paintings are a source of fascination. Aside from their beauty, there's deep meaning in these strokes, which depict ancient rituals and important symbols. Scientists now describe... more

Prehistoric rock paintings are a source of fascination across the world. Aside from their beauty, there's deep meaning in these strokes, which depict ancient rituals and important symbols.... more

With new genome analysis tools, scientists have made significant advances in our understanding of modern humans' origins and ancient migrations. more

As the U.K. continues to debate over the state of Brexit, NPR's Scott Simon looks at how a new discovery at Stonehenge might offer a lesson in coming together. more

The ancient stone circles around Stonehenge and Avebury in England may have all started with the commemoration of a single Neolithic house. more

Scientists said Tuesday they might have detected the first known seismic tremor on Mars in a discovery that could shed light on the ancient origins of Earth's neighbour. more

Ancient organic matter of biological origin has been tracked in multiple samples of rock spanning over 2,000 million years of Earth's history, according to researchers. more

The 3-foot-wide rock rock visited us three years before 'Oumuamua. more

Creatures that look like pancakes or worms with horseshoe heads have been frozen in rock for half a... more

When Ohio University integrative biologist Nancy Stevens peered into a... more

New evidence of the impact of the recent planet-encompassing dust storm on water in the atmosphere, and a surprising lack... more

Researchers have developed a new model to explain the evolutionary origins of empathy and other related phenomena, such as emotional contagion and contagious yawning. The model suggests that... more

New evidence of the impact of the recent planet-encompassing dust storm on water in the atmosphere, and a surprising lack of methane, are among the scientific... more

ALH-77005, a Martian rock found in Antarctica, contains numerous mineralized ‘biosignatures,’ including coccoidal, filamentous structures and organic material,... more

Trying to find ancient DNA, let alone prove that the ancient DNA is ancestral to a population living today, is extremely challenging. A new study adds to this understanding by reconstructing artificial... more

The UN headquarters in New York, the pyramids of Egypt and Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue were among top world monuments plunged into darkness for an hour Saturday to put the spotlight on climate... more

Mixtures of hot volcanic rock and gas called pyroclastic flows travel so far by gliding on air, a new study suggests. more

Researchers say mercury buried in ancient rock provides the strongest evidence yet that volcanoes caused the biggest mass extinction in the history of the Earth. more

A team of scientists from Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University used 3-D printing to create biocompatible structures on the basis of chitin obtained from crab... more

New evidence of the impact of the recent planet-encompassing dust storm on water in the atmosphere, and a surprising lack... more

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute and the Santa Fe Institute have developed a new model to explain the evolutionary origins of empathy and other related phenomena, such as emotional contagion and contagious yawning. The model... more

Gestures and visual animations can help reveal the cognitive origins of meaning, indicating that our minds can assign a linguistic structure to new informational content 'on the fly'... more

Gestures and visual animations can help reveal the cognitive origins of meaning, indicating that our minds can assign a linguistic structure to new informational content "on the fly"—even... more

With the Glassomer process, a method that enables scientists to shape glass like plastic, they are now able to produce three-dimensional hollow structures in quartz glass. more

Researchers say mercury buried in ancient rock provides the strongest evidence yet that volcanoes caused the biggest mass extinction in the history of the Earth. The extinction 252 million years... more

Evolutionary origins of novel forms are often obscure because early and transitional fossils tend to be rare, poorly preserved, or... more

As ancient ocean floors plunge over 1,000 km into the Earth's deep interior, they cause hot rock in the lower mantle to flow much more dynamically... more

Near the northern Greek island of Alonissos lies a remarkable ancient shipwreck: the remains of a massive cargo ship that changed archaeologists' understanding of shipbuilding in antiquity. more

The ancient humans also known as the “hobbit” people (Homo floresiensis) might have company in their small stature with the discovery of... more