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The National Museum of Ireland received two early Bronze age axeheads from an anonymous sender, and experts are begging them to come forward.

Science & Energy

Museum Stunned When Someone Anonymously Mails in Two Ancient Artifacts

By Frank Landymore

Recovered human hairs provide the first direct evidence that prehistoric Europeans were fond of consuming psychoactive rugs like scopolamine.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover That Ancient Humans Were Tripping Balls in a Cave

By Frank Landymore

An ancient comet impact may have helped jumpstart human civilization, according to a study linking the collision to cultural and societal shifts.

Science & Energy

Study: A Comet Hitting Earth May Have Helped Spark Civilization

By Dan Robitzski

Archeologists in Israel made an incredibly rare discovery in the ancient industrial zone of Yavneh, a central Israeli city: a 1,000 year old chicken egg.

Science & Energy

Archeologists Discover 1000-Year-Old Egg, Accidentally Break It

By Victor Tangermann

A viral post claims that odd-looking skulls are evidence of alien life, but an expert say that the skulls came from plain old human beings.

Science & Energy

These Alien-Looking Skulls Are Actually Human, Expert Says

By Jon Christian

Google Earth just released a huge update to its time-lapse function, creating 3D, 35-year time-lapses of the entire planet.

Science & Energy

Watch Humanity Mold the Planet in Amazing Google Earth Time-Lapse

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists reconstructed a dinosaur's brain from scans of well-preserved fossils, learning they had been wrong about how the species lived in the process.

Scientists Digitally Reconstruct Dinosaur Brain

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, the entire solar system took a mere 200,000 years to form — considerably less time than how long humanity has been around.

Humans Have Been Around for Longer Than it Took the Solar System to Form, Study Claims

By Dan Robitzski

23andMe released a massive study that traced and revealed new apsects of the transatlantic slave trade through genetic ancestry reports.

23andMe Releases Devastating Analysis of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists recreated the conditions under which life originated. They think they've kickstarted the whole process by generating new vesicles.

Scientists Claim to Have Recreated Earth’s First Life

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study on ancient mollusk fossils, a day on Earth used to be half an hour shorter and a year was a full week longer.

Science & Energy

It’s Not You: Scientists Confirm Days Are Actually Getting Longer

By Dan Robitzski

There are a number of disturbing parallels between the coronavirus COVID-19 and the Spanish flu — and leaders seem to have ignored lessons from the past.

In the Coronavirus, Historians See Echoes of Past Pandemics

By Dan Robitzski

As the world continues to heat up from climate change, tens of thousands of important archaeological sites throughout the Arctic will be destroyed.

Climate Change Is Destroying Greenland’s Historic Viking Towns

By Dan Robitzski

Startups that sequence your DNA have a new target market, according to a new story in The Atlantic: your long-dead ancestors.

DNA Ancestry Startups Have a New Target Market: The Long-Dead

By Jon Christian

DNA of Man Who Died in 1827 Recreated Without His Remains

Science & Energy

DNA of Man Who Died in 1827 Recreated Without His Remains

By Chelsea Gohd

Does Life In 2018 Live up to What We Predicted a Century Ago?

Does Life In 2018 Live up to What We Predicted a Century Ago?

By Claudia Geib