Facing its worst drought in decades, Iran is attempting to stimulate rain by spreading seeding agents in clouds, but the ...

A major settlement in Central Asia called Semiyarka dating back to 1600 BC had houses, a big central building and even an ...

A 12,000-year-old clay sculpture found in Israel depicts a goose on the back of a woman, and archaeologists suggest it may be ...

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an ...

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The discovery that fat is a communicative organ with a role in everything from bone health to mood is forcing a rethink of ...

Mice with the same genetic variant that contributes towards red hair in people were slower to recover from wounds than their black-haired counterparts ...

RNA from an exceptionally well preserved woolly mammoth gives us a window on gene activity in an animal that died nearly ...

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Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – ...

The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ...