Past the agricultural revolution, there’s something of a sea-change in how dogs are found in the archaeological record. They ...

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Is civil war looming in the United States? This has been a recurring contention among some political commentators and ...

The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...

A fter more than 40 years of exploration and excavations at the ancient Maya city of Caracol, researchers have finally unearthed a tomb belonging to one of its rulers. Even more significantly, the ...

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We spoke to the first author of a new study that could challenge much of what we thought we knew about Alzheimer’s disease.

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