The origin of the Huns in fourth-century Europe has long been debated, but centuries-old DNA has revealed their diverse ...

A vast search of natural diversity has led scientists at MIT's McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard ...

Why archaeologists are increasingly leaving historic sites untouched until we have less destructive technologies for studying ...

Ancient DNA traces the Huns' journey from Mongolia to Europe. But this wasn't straightforward.

The Huns, the nomadic warriors who devastated the Western Roman Empire, have long been a source of fascination and mystery ...

A new study suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic loss of genetic variation during the course of their evolution, foreshadowing their eventual extinction. Examination of semicircular ...

Groundbreaking research finds that Neanderthals experienced a severe population crash 110,000 years ago, challenging past ...

Recent excavations at the Liulihe relic site in Beijing have uncovered significant discoveries, including the precise ...

Glaciers once inched toward the sea, gouging rocks. When the ice masses melted, they infused oceans with nutrients that may ...

The Xiongnu Empire had dissolved around 100 CE, leaving a 300-year gap before the appearance of the Huns in Europe.

A supernova explosion about 2.5 million years ago sent cosmic rays to Earth. Around that time, virus diversity in Lake ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...