Researchers at the University College of London are working to find a way to read the ancient scraps without destroying the artifacts in the process
“The brain is an organ that is really important for what makes us human.”
The symptoms were unlike anything the doctors of the time had seen.
Using ‘next generation’ DNA sequencing scientists have found that the famous ‘Two Brothers’ mummies of the Manchester Museum have different fathers so are, in fact, half-brothers.
Two wayward space rocks, which separately crashed to Earth in 1998 after circulating in our solar system’s asteroid belt for billions of years, share something else in common: the ingredients for life. They are the first meteorites found to contain both liquid water and a mix of complex organic compounds such as hydrocarbons and amino acids.
Mysterious fragments of a rock known as the Hypatia stone, found in the Egyptian desert in 1996, traces its origins back to even before the very first days of the solar system, according to a new paper published in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
A new genome from a Pleistocene burial in Alaska confirms a longstanding model for the initial peopling of the Americas
A kilometer-size asteroid slammed into Earth about 800,000 years ago with so much force that it scattered debris across a 10th of our planet’s surface. Yet its impact crater remains undiscovered. Now, glassy remains believed to have come from the strike suggest the asteroid hit southeast Asia as our close ancestors walked the Earth.
The eggs were found by workers who were excavating the ground for the construction of a school in Jiangxi province.
Researchers in London have developed scanning techniques that show what is written on the papyrus that mummy cases are made from.
