Genesis data is now producing high impact science in cosmochemistry, solar physics, coronal mass ejections, and space ...

The research challenges the long-held belief that only Homo sapiens had the capacity to thrive in extreme environments.

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

Desert lizards struggle as warming temperatures raise their food needs while limiting foraging time, making survival ...

Nabta Playa, discovered in 1974, is a prehistoric site located in a remote desert region near the border of Egypt and Sudan.

From Japan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s Out of Eden Walk marks 12 years, with North America on the horizon.

DRI scientists analyzed Arctic ice core records to reconstruct historical atmospheric lead pollution from Ancient Rome, uncovering a link between lead exposure and cognitive decline. Lead exposure is ...

New research suggests that lead pollution from ancient Roman mining and metal production may have lowered intelligence levels across the Empire.

Learn how researchers examined lead levels in ice cores dating back to the Roman Empire, and found concentrations high enough ...

Often, though, these large-scale solar farms are deployed in desert habitats, which contain native flora ... It could very well be that the net thermal impact of large-scale power plants is minimal, ...

Driven by optimism, he says he hoped to uncover something extraordinary: a human ancestor fossil ... So, her influence and impact was huge," he said. While completing his studies in Addis ...

On Christmas Eve, an autonomous spacecraft flew past the Sun, closer than any human-made object before it. Swooping through the atmosphere, Nasa's Parker Solar Probe was on a mission to discover ...