The poorly understood ‘matalafi’ -- the homogenate of Psychotria insularum leaves (fresh leaf juice) -- is widely used in Samoan traditional medicine.

Scientists from Macquarie University and elsewhere have analyzed samples from queen Hetepheres’ bracelets using several state-of-the-art techniques.

Around 12,800 years ago, Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet, triggering Younger Dryas climate change; this event created environmental conditions at Abu Hureyra, Syria, that ...

The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age was a far-flung transformation in world history. Margaryan et al sequenced the genomes of 442 humans from archaeological sites ...

Pre-contact Central and South American dogs (Canis familiaris) -- all dogs preceding contact with European settlers -- descended from a single maternal lineage that diverged after dogs entered North ...

Physicists from the Muon g-2 experiment have released their third measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly. The final result agrees with their published results from 2021 and 2023 but with a much ...

According to a team of astrophysicists led by Eric Lerner from Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, the Universe is not expanding at all.