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

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

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

University of Maryland scientists have found remnants of an ancient seafloor buried deep within Earth’s mantle, offering a ...

The earliest ever human DNA from Scandinavia is set to help humans know about the elusive people who first settled in the ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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.