Vitamins got their name in the early 1900s when London-based Polish biochemist Casimir Funk—one of many scientists seeking ...

During the last Ice Age,roughly between 26,000 and 19,000 years ago, the Earth was dramatically different from today. Vast ...

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

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

In the northern hemisphere, ice sheets up to 8 kilometers tall covered much of Europe, Asia and North America, while much of the southern hemisphere became drier as water was draw ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration. By Carl Zimmer Geography is one of the things that ...

Hundreds of years before the arrival of the first Europeans, Indigenous farmers were growing crops like squash, corn and beans in earthen mounds they built on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Almost 2,000 years ago, in Africa, specifically in the city of Alexandria in Egypt, Claudius Ptolemy wrote a set of 13 books known as Mathematical Syntax. This Ptolemaic treatise summarized the most ...

HEAVENER, Okla. (KTAL/KMSS) — A former Arkansas State Park in Oklahoma is either proof that Columbus was not the first to “discover” the new world, proof that the state of Arkansas was once duped into ...