A rare organic glass was found inside a skull from Herculaneum’s 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. Researchers determined that a super ...

The remains were given to a Russian scientist, who wanted prove that people of different races and ethnicities were the same ...

SA Police says it had "expertly assessed" several skeletal remains listed for sale by the auction house and the "sale of ...

The nailed heads ritual did not correspond to the same symbolic expression among the Iberian communities of the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, but rather a practice that differed in each ...

Researchers examine evidence of manipulation of human remains from Maszycka Cave. An international research team, including ...

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken ... used CRISPR gene editing to replace the NOVA1 ...

Human brains contain higher concentrations of microplastics than other organs, according to a new study, and the amount appears to be increasing over time. In the study, published in early ...

More information: Runnan Cao et al, Domain-specific representation of social inference by neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus, Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6166 ...

When the study authors uncovered the skull in 2020, they shouted excitedly as they realized their rare find, recalled lead author Shorouq Al-Ashqar, a doctoral student at Mansoura University ...

For more than a century, archaeologists have been finding decapitated human skulls ... theorized that these skulls had belonged to respected community members and were put on display for veneration ...

And most importantly, if we were to upload our minds into a machine, would that mind still be human, or would it transform into a mechanical consciousness, devoid of soul? These and other questions ...

Ancient relics from pre-Pharoah times, 100-million-year-old dinosaur fossils and a wide collection of human skulls only begin to scratch the surface of the peculiar and rare items the curator has been ...