Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...
A 22-centimeter alabaster vase, inscribed to the Persian king Xerxes I, has revealed that narcotics were part of everyday ...
A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...
Researchers have discovered chemical traces of life in rocks older than 3.3 billion years, offering a rare look at Earth’s ...
About 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity ...
On December 20th 2021 at 7.37am, the sun rose over the rocky hills on the southeastern horizon at Karahan Tepe. Ten minutes later an upright blade of light appeared on one side of the oversized stone ...
Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...