Proteins, a cell's molecular machinery, also offer valuable information and have the virtue of surviving much longer, as new research shows.

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

The large flying reptiles known as pterosaur preyed on primitive fish that would have hard scale armour covering them.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem addressed the deadly Texas flood, promising to upgrade "ancient" National Weather Service systems ...

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

Archaeologists reported finding the first "exceptionally large shoe" on May 21 and have continued to discover more since then ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

Eleven students took a 2,000-year-old rice recipe and combined it with modern technology, resurrecting a dish that may inspire new culinary innovations.

Old World, High Tech An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time. Eric Jaffe. December 2006. Get our newsletter! ... Physical evidence of an ancient technology is rare, ...