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Published Unveiling Japan's ancient practice of cranial modification: The case of the Hirota people in Tanegashima



Cranial modification is a form of body alteration where the head is pressed or bound to permanently...
Published Scientists devise algorithm to engineer improved enzymes



Scientists have prototyped a new method for 'rationally engineering' enzymes to deliver improved per...
Published Source rocks of the first real continents



Geoscientists have uncovered a missing link in the enigmatic story of how the continents developed-...
Published Mysterious fruit shown to be the oldest known fossils of the Frankincense and Myrrh family



Early in the 1970s, paleontologists discovered strange fossilized fruits between hardened rock from...
Published The first assessment of toxic heavy metal pollution in the Southern Hemisphere over the last 2,000 years



Human activity, from burning fossil fuels and fireplaces to the contaminated dust produced by mining...
Published Unraveling the origin and global spread of the potato blight pathogen



A new study challenges the common theory that the devastating potato blight pathogen Phytophthora in...
Published Rock steady: Study reveals new mechanism to explain how continents stabilized



Ancient, expansive tracts of continental crust called cratons have helped keep Earth's continents st...
Published Researchers unveil mysteries of ancient Earth



A team of researchers has made strides in understanding the formation of massif-type anorthosites, e...
Published St Helena's 'liberated' Africans came from West Central Africa between northern Angola and Gabon



Between 1840 and 1867, thousands of enslaved Africans who had been 'liberated' from slave ships inte...
Published Origin of ancient mummified baboons found in Egypt



Primatologists are using genetic analysis to determine the geographic origin of ancient mummified ba...
Published Key moment in the evolution of life on Earth captured in fossils



New research has precisely dated some of the oldest fossils of complex multicellular life in the wor...
Published Early Homo sapiens facilitated the establishment of the Bonelli's eagle in the Mediterranean 50,000 years ago



Scientists have unraveled the ancestral history of one of the most iconic birds of prey in the curre ...
Published Study of ancient British oral microbiomes reveals shift following Black Death



The Second Plague Pandemic of the mid-14th century, also known as the Black Death, killed 30-60 perc...
Published Researchers name prehistoric amphibian ancestor discovered in Smithsonian collection after Kermit the Frog



Scientists have uncovered the fossilized skull of a 270-million-year-old ancient amphibian ancestor...
Published Ancient pollen trapped in Greenland ice uncovers changes in Canadian forests over 800 years



The Greenland ice sheet lies thousands of miles from North America yet holds clues to the distant co...
Published Mercury rising: Study sheds new light on ancient volcanoes' environmental impact



Massive volcanic events in Earth's history that released large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere ...
Published Record-breaking recovery of rocks that originated in Earth's mantle could reveal secrets of planet's history



Scientists have recovered the first long section of rocks that originated in the Earth's mantle, the...
Published Largest historic fire death toll belongs to aftermath of 1923 Japan Earthquake



Fires that raged in the days following the 1 September 1923 magnitude 7.9 Kant earthquake killed rou...
Published Some of today's earthquakes may be aftershocks from quakes in the 1800s



In the 1800s, some of the strongest earthquakes in recorded U.S. history struck North America's cont ...
Published A new origin story for deadly Seattle fault



The Seattle fault zone is a network of shallow faults slicing through the lowlands of Puget Sound, t...