We cannot predict the finer details of a particular outbreak or a particular storm, but we can often identify when these threats are emerging and prepare accordingly.The viruses that cause avian ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has turned traditional thinking on its head by ...

When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may ...

Analyzing the nugget, the authors of a new study note that an abundance of ash and charcoal deposits were found nearby, along ...

Researchers have uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was ...

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In the Iron Gates gorge of the Danube, in present-day Serbia, lies Lepenski Vir, an archaeological site that has been key to ...

These are the world’s oldest landmarks still standing, relics that defy the erosion of millennia. From the enigmatic pillars ...

European Neolithic hunter-gatherer groups traveled the sea to make their home in Africa, according to a new archaeological ...