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Researchers found that ancient hominids--including early humans--were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical traces in fossil teeth. Experiments suggest this exposure may have driven genetic changes that strengthened language-related ...

Researchers digitally mapped ancient Chinese tombs and discovered that their distribution mirrors shifts in political stability, population movements, and natural geography. Peaceful, prosperous eras produced more elaborate and numerous burial sites, ...

Genetic, isotopic, and forensic evidence has conclusively identified the remains of Duke Béla of Macsó and uncovered remarkable details about his life, ancestry, and violent death. The study reveals a young nobleman with Scandinavian-Rurik roots .. ...

Footprints preserved on ancient dunes show Neanderthals actively navigating, hunting, and living along Portugal's coastline. Their behavior and diet suggest a far more adaptable and socially complex population than once assumed.

Researchers have rediscovered a long-lost Babylonian hymn from 1000 BCE, using artificial intelligence to piece together fragments scattered across the world. The hymn glorifies ancient Babylon's beauty, prosperity, and inclusivity, even describing . ...

Historians have traced myths about the Black Death's rapid journey across Asia to one 14th-century poem by Ibn al-Wardi. His imaginative maqma, never meant as fact, became the foundation for centuries of misinformation about how the plague spread. .. ...

In Peru's mysterious Pisco Valley, thousands of perfectly aligned holes known as Monte Sierpe have long puzzled scientists. New drone mapping and microbotanical analysis reveal that these holes may once have served as a bustling pre-Inca barter ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel's incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires "non-algorithmic understanding," something no computation can replicate. . ...

An 18th-century mechanical artwork depicting Mount Vesuvius' eruption has finally erupted -- 250 years later. University of Melbourne students reconstructed Sir William Hamilton's imaginative fusion of art and engineering using modern technology. ...

Most U.S. adults don't realize alcohol raises cancer risk, and drinkers themselves are the least aware. Scientists say targeting these misbeliefs could significantly reduce alcohol-related cancer deaths.