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Archaeology
Archaeology: is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities.
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JUN 27, 2025Earth & The Environment
Plant fossils were found in the abdomen of a dinosaur called a sauropod, shown in this artistic impression. Image credit ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 13, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have learned a lot about how people settled the Americas by using genetic data. Columbia is part of the land ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 06, 2025Earth & The Environment
New research has indicated that humans used what bones to create tools as many as 20,000 years ago. These findings have ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 25, 2025Earth & The Environment
Vikings did not use maps, sextants, or other devices to navigate. They likely remembered their routes with coastal landm ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 21, 2025Earth & The Environment
While the scientific fields of planetary geology and archaeology don’t initially seem like a natural pairing, thei ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 18, 2025Earth & The Environment
A new study has determined that a rapidly advancing cloud of gas from the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius overtook a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 09, 2025Earth & The Environment
If you have seen Roman gladiators depicted on TV or in movies, you probably saw them in an arena with lions. Gladiators ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 11, 2025Earth & The Environment
Researchers have performed an updated analysis of an ancient child that was discovered in 1998 in the Lapedo Valley of P ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 27, 2024Space & Astronomy
How important is it to preserve human artifacts on Mars, specifically the myriads of rovers and landers that have helped ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 15, 2024Microbiology
Microbes have been able to find a home in some truly incredible places, even inside of ancient rocks....Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 20, 2024Genetics & Genomics
We know that some groups of modern humans still carry some sequences in their genomes that are derived from Neanderthals ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 19, 2024Earth & The Environment
Scientists have managed to reconstruct the 3D structure of a woolly mammoth genome that is 52,000 years old, in a first ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 22, 2024Earth & The Environment
Researchers have reported the discovery of fossils from a massive, ancient snake that could have been bigger than a bus.Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 15, 2024Genetics & Genomics
New research has suggested that when the first farmers arrived in Scandinavia almost 6,000 years ago, the existing hunte ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 06, 2024Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to dazzle and amaze as it helps astronomers gain greater insigh ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 12, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have determined that humans probably started practicing agriculture about 10,000 years ago. WIth those change ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 11, 2024Earth & The Environment
Scientists have revealed a group of lost cities under earthen mounds in Ecuador. Over two decades ago, these mounds and ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 10, 2024Genetics & Genomics
A new study suggests Herodotus' description of the Scythians using human skin as leather may not have been an exaggerati ...Written By: Sarah HoffmanJUL 24, 2023Space & Astronomy
As humanity prepares to send humans back to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years with the upcoming Artemis missi ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 20, 2023Cannabis Sciences
While Cannabis has only recently become legalized in many areas of the world, it’s been with us for thousands of y ...Written By: Sarah HoffmanMAY 08, 2023Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in Earth Science Reviews examines how both the shine and excellent preservation of fossils disc ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAR 24, 2023Earth & The Environment
Archaeoastronomy is a scientific discipline that applies astronomical observation to archaeological interpretation. Deep ...Written By: Sarah HoffmanMAR 08, 2023Technology
The creative mind is beautiful. Humans have always been capable of great works of art and wonder, something that has bee ...Written By: Mandy WoodsFEB 23, 2023Plants & Animals
Researchers find evidence that Neandertals hunted and butchered prehistoric elephants, which could feed communities for ...Written By: Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
JUN 27, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Plant fossils were found in the abdomen of a dinosaur called a sauropod, shown in this artistic impression. Image credit
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 13, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have learned a lot about how people settled the Americas by using genetic data. Columbia is part of the land
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 06, 2025
Earth & The Environment
New research has indicated that humans used what bones to create tools as many as 20,000 years ago. These findings have
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 25, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Vikings did not use maps, sextants, or other devices to navigate. They likely remembered their routes with coastal landm
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 21, 2025
Earth & The Environment
While the scientific fields of planetary geology and archaeology don’t initially seem like a natural pairing, thei
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 18, 2025
Earth & The Environment
A new study has determined that a rapidly advancing cloud of gas from the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius overtook a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 09, 2025
Earth & The Environment
If you have seen Roman gladiators depicted on TV or in movies, you probably saw them in an arena with lions. Gladiators
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 11, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Researchers have performed an updated analysis of an ancient child that was discovered in 1998 in the Lapedo Valley of P
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 27, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How important is it to preserve human artifacts on Mars, specifically the myriads of rovers and landers that have helped
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 15, 2024
Microbiology
Microbes have been able to find a home in some truly incredible places, even inside of ancient rocks....
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 20, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
We know that some groups of modern humans still carry some sequences in their genomes that are derived from Neanderthals
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 19, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have managed to reconstruct the 3D structure of a woolly mammoth genome that is 52,000 years old, in a first
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 22, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Researchers have reported the discovery of fossils from a massive, ancient snake that could have been bigger than a bus.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 15, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
New research has suggested that when the first farmers arrived in Scandinavia almost 6,000 years ago, the existing hunte
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 06, 2024
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to dazzle and amaze as it helps astronomers gain greater insigh
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 12, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have determined that humans probably started practicing agriculture about 10,000 years ago. WIth those change
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 11, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have revealed a group of lost cities under earthen mounds in Ecuador. Over two decades ago, these mounds and
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 10, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
A new study suggests Herodotus' description of the Scythians using human skin as leather may not have been an exaggerati
...
Written By:
Sarah Hoffman
JUL 24, 2023
Space & Astronomy
As humanity prepares to send humans back to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years with the upcoming Artemis missi
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 20, 2023
Cannabis Sciences
While Cannabis has only recently become legalized in many areas of the world, it’s been with us for thousands of y
...
Written By:
Sarah Hoffman
MAY 08, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in Earth Science Reviews examines how both the shine and excellent preservation of fossils disc
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 24, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Archaeoastronomy is a scientific discipline that applies astronomical observation to archaeological interpretation. Deep
...
Written By:
Sarah Hoffman
MAR 08, 2023
Technology
The creative mind is beautiful. Humans have always been capable of great works of art and wonder, something that has bee
...
Written By:
Mandy Woods
FEB 23, 2023
Plants & Animals
Researchers find evidence that Neandertals hunted and butchered prehistoric elephants, which could feed communities for
...
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt