Researchers extract plant residues from ancient bedrock metates, revealing insights into early diets and traditional plant ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

In this video, Dug makes his own knapping tools from common Home Depot materials. Cool Tools’ Kevin Kelly has pointed out ...

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ...

Microscopic plant residues found on bedrock metates offer new insights into the diets and cultural practices of ancient Indigenous communities in the American West. The mortar, pestle, and cutting ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

In a discovery reshaping the understanding of prehistoric cultures in Eurasia, archaeologists found an 8,400-year-old stone ...

The adoption of digital tools in mental health promotion, including telemedicine, online therapy, social media, and wearables, offers promising new avenues to address these issues. This review ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and northeastern Algeria — shows that Stone Age populations who lived there more than 8,000 ...

Japan’s oldest lion, Oto, died on Monday at the age of 25, which is equivalent to a century in human years. Born in 1999 in Hokkaido’s Asahiyama Zoo, Oto had lived in the Toyohashi Zoo and ...

Groundwater depletion, climate shifts and policy failures threaten one of the world’s largest pistachio supplies, in Rafsanjan, Iran. The situation should be a warning to others about climate ...