The Webb Road Flea Market stands like a beacon for bargain-seekers, with its unmistakable red roof and yellow signage promising adventures that money literally can buy (and at prices that won’t make ...

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...

Archaeologists in Stratonikeia, Turkey, uncovered a rare Greco-Roman library, revealing ancient architecture and centuries of ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

In a new study published today in Science Advances, my colleagues and I have uncovered the earliest evidence of rice in the ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

The gold standard for determining the age of ancient rocks is measuring the radioactive decay of isotopes of uranium into lead in minerals known as zircons. But not all rocks contain zircons, so ...

Evidence buried in gypsum dunes suggests humans arrived far earlier than expected. Radiocarbon dates from three materials ...

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by preservation materials. A new estimate suggests the mammoth-ivory artefact is ...