Why weren’t New World rabbits domesticated?
Archaeologists find the answer in rabbit social behaviorCredit: Nawa Sugiyama/UCR Domesticated rabbits come in all sizes and colors, including tiny ...
Tag: History
DNA from 1,600-year-old Iranian sheep mummy brings history to life
Credit: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Zanjan Cultural Heritage Centre, Archaeological Museum of Zanjan. A team of geneticists and archaeologists from ...
Study reports on experiences of LGB Vietnam-era veterans
Greater trauma burden linked with PTSD, poorer mental healthCredit: National Archives Lesbian, gay, and bisexual Veterans from the Vietnam era ...
Leonardo Da Vinci: New family tree spans 21 generations, 690 years, finds 14 living male descendants
Paper offers foundation to advance search for Leonardo's DNACredit: Alessandro Vezzosi and Agnese Sabato The surprising results of a decade-long ...
Scientists reconstruct Mediterranean silver trade, from Trojan War to Roman Republic
Credit: We are grateful to L. E. Stager and D. Master, directors of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, and ...
The City of David and the sharks’ teeth mystery
Credit: Omri Lernau Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilised shark teeth in an area where there should be ...
Decoding humans’ survival from coronaviruses
An international team of researchers co-led by the University of Adelaide and the University of Arizona has analysed the genomes ...
3,000-year-old shark attack victim found by Oxford-led researchers
Newspapers regularly carry stories of terrifying shark attacks, but in a paper published today, Oxford-led researchers reveal their discovery of ...
Sacred natural sites protect biodiversity in Iran
Research team from the Universities of Kassel, Göttingen and Kurdistan investigate this form of local nature conservation How much do ...
First evidence that medieval plague victims were buried individually with ‘considerable care’
In the mid-14th century Europe was devastated by a major pandemic - the Black Death - which killed between 40 ...
Fossil research shows woodlice cousins roamed Ireland 360 million years ago
New techniques used to recreate the image of the Oxyuropoda - the cousin of the garden woodlice The old cousins ...
Mary Foltz awarded Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship to expand LGBTQ Archive
Lehigh University's Mary Foltz will serve as a scholar-in-residence at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, where she will work with the ...
Holberg Prize to Martha C. Nussbaum and Griselda Pollock
The 2020 and 2021 Holberg Prizes were conferred upon Professor Griselda Pollock and Professor Martha C. Nussbaum, respectively At a ...
Māori connections to Antarctica may go as far back as 7th century, new study shows
Credit: © A short scan of Māori journeys to Antarctica / Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand Indigenous ...
10,000-year-old DNA pens the first tales of the earliest domesticated goats
New research has revealed the genetic makeup of the earliest goat herds. The findings, assimilated from DNA taken from the ...
Latest issue of Pacific Asia Inquiry showcases philosophical wisdom of the Pacific
University of Guam releases 11th volume of its peer-reviewed journal The University of Guam College of Liberal Arts and Social ...
The entire genome from Peştera Muierii 1 sequenced
Credit: Mattias Jakobsson For the first time, researchers have successfully sequenced the entire genome from the skull of Peştera Muierii ...
Swiss farmers contributed to the domestication of the opium poppy
Credit: Raül Soteras, AgriChange Project Fields of opium poppies once bloomed where the Zurich Opera House underground garage now stands. ...
Caltech professor helps solve Hindenburg disaster
Credit: Caltech On the evening of May 6, 1937, the largest aircraft ever built by mankind, a towering example of ...
Scientists explore Tesla roads not taken — and find new potential present-day utility
Study tests viability of 100-year old patented device by inventorCredit: NYU's Applied Mathematics Laboratory A valve invented by engineer Nikola ...
