Macedonia faced a sudden cultural and military shock when Celtic warriors shattered the Hellenistic illusion of invincibility.

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought ...

By 2050 the world’s population is expected to reach nearly 9.5 billion people, dramatically reshaping which countries dominate the global population rankings. Using United Nations projections based on ...

The average age of Wisconsin's population is higher than the national average, reflecting the rapidly aging baby boomer generation.

A unique technique allowed astronomers to see the early universe as a "sea of light" and explore the effects of gravity and ...

An alleged screenshot of a 2006 4chan post displayed a user's warning about a dark future, predicting pandemics and World War ...

Much of our understanding of Earth's past is derived from stratigraphic records exposed in rock outcrops or recovered from drilled cores. These records span immense time intervals, from thousands to ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

A UC Irvine-led study used international and commercial satellites to measure glaciers and found more than three-quarters of Antarctica’s coast-reaching glaciers to be stable, with the other quarter ...

Notably, the researchers point out that the strongest signals of selection “are all plausibly related to the consumption of agricultural products.” For instance, in the last 100 generations, there ...