We hardly give them a second thought, but everyday objects like bags and backpacks belong to a long technological tradition that may stretch back hundreds of thousands of years. While researchers have ...

Over the past 10 years, researchers led by Fu Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have used ancient DNA (aDNA) ...

Across the sandstone cliffs of eastern Utah, rock art panels bearing large-eyed, elaborately adorned humanoid figures ...

Ancient objects whose existence somehow rewrites everything we assumed about old technology ...

Scientists used a portable CT scan to read 4,000-year-old cuneiform text hidden inside sealed clay envelopes from ancient Mesopotamia.

In the technology world, there's a strong consensus that the metaverse is moving closer every day. But what is the metaverse, exactly? For many, the metaverse means living every day in virtual reality ...