Modern society relies heavily on encoding information for efficient transmission. One of the most common methods is sending data as pulses of laser light through… Read More »Researchers Develop New Method to Create and Control Light Vortices
Geologists have recently discovered compelling evidence from Colorado that suggests Earth may have been encased in ice all the way to the equator hundreds of… Read More »Scientists Find Evidence of Snowball Earth in Colorado
The discovery of a 210,000-year-old skull identified as Homo sapiens has reshaped our understanding of early human migration, pushing back the timeline of modern humans’… Read More »Homo Sapiens in Europe 150,000 Years Ago
A new study, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals that Neanderthals made an intercontinental trek of more than 3000… Read More »Neanderthals Made a 3000km Trek to Siberia
By using ancient protein sequencing, researchers have retrieved genetic information from a 1.9 million year old extinct, giant primate that used to live in a… Read More »Ancient Protein Sequencing Reveals Gigantopithecus’ Closest Living Relative
Genetic information from an 800,000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results from the University of Copenhagen shed light on one… Read More »Scientists Sequence Oldest Human Protein to Date
Ancient humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans were genetically closer to each other than many modern species, such as polar bears and brown bears, according to a… Read More »Ancient Humans Were More Interbred Than Thought
Around 100,000 years ago, the climate changed abruptly and the environment of Central-Eastern Europe shifted from forested to open steppe/taiga habitat, promoting the dispersal of… Read More »Neanderthal Tooth Provides Clues to Ice Age Adaptations
The notion that modern humans outcompeted Neanderthals due to their greater resistance to toxic smoke components from fire has been a subject of debate among… Read More »Neanderthals Were Not More Vulnerable to Smoke
In a groundbreaking discovery, Italian archaeologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of nine Neanderthals in the Guattari Cave, located near Rome, providing valuable insights into… Read More »Ancient Human Remains Found in Italian Cave