Astonishing evidence for an ancient form of sophisticated machining into very hard stone can be seen on one of the artifacts ...

An investigation into the evidence for ancient high technology found across the world. We look into the evidence for ...

A specially trained algorithm could aid the search for biological activity both on the early Earth and on other worlds.

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Researchers have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved ancient relic in Japan, dating back over 10,000 years.

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered how Incas used Andean balance scales and ancient string knot ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...