It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in.

A thirty-year scientific partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people, in the Xingu Indigenous Territory in Mato ...

Radiance" reflects the artist's investigations into ultra-contemporary materials and ancient Japanese cosmologies.

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A new genetic study of the ancient Chinese city of Shimao reveals a strictly patrilineal society that practised ...

D imaging reveals ancient phages virus with features dating back billions of years - and potential to fight today’s dangerous superbugs.

They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them. The oldest sample they identified as biological was 3.3bn years old—twice ...

NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed life-linked sugars, a mysterious gum-like substance and even grains of ancient stardust.

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