For 12,400 years, the cave’s arid air preserved two small scraps of elk hide stitched together with twisted fiber. These ...

A long-debated platinum spike in Greenland ice is best explained by volcanic activity rather than a cosmic impact, reshaping ideas about what triggered the Younger Dryas cooling. An unusual platinum ...

Archaeologists uncover a 26,000-year-old ostrich eggshell workshop in China, revealing craft production during the Late Paleolithic period.

New discoveries in archaeology, genetics, and geology are piling up and they do not fit the clean textbook story of slow human progress. Evidence points to sudden cataclysms, lost knowledge, and ...

The Younger Dryas — a sudden return to Ice Age conditions — struck 12,800 years ago, but the Fertile Crescent didn’t freeze into silence. Instead, settlements like Jericho, Tell Qaramel, and Göbekli ...

V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that ...

Geology runs in order, as sediments pile up over time, with older material buried deeper and younger layers added on top. The sequence allows scientists to read Earth’s past like a timeline. It ...

It’s important to treat your brain like a retirement fund — the earlier you invest, the better it pays off. Building brain health with movement and mental curiosity helps keep your mind’s wiring ...

For years, financial institutions have talked about attracting younger customers, although few have meaningfully adapted to how Generation-Z and younger Millennials choose where and how they bank. In ...

DEAR ABBY: I am a 31-year-old woman who is not yet established in life. I have no husband or boyfriend, no kids and no clear direction for a career. I start new, low-level jobs often. My problem is ...

BEIJING (AP) — In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular app among young Chinese people is definitively the latter. It’s called, simply, ...