Scientists, students to conduct first live, interactive public broadcasts from arctic ocean
On an 18-day voyage July 18 -- August 4, 2019 US/Canadian team of experts and students to measure vital signs ...
Tag: History
New study reveals biological toll on brain function of Holocaust survivors
Stress of surviving the Holocaust has shown a lifelong and lasting negative impact on survivors' brain structure, as well as ...
Permafrost researcher from Yukon College joins international project on Herschel Island
Credit: Louis-Philippe Roy Louis-Philippe Roy stands at the edge of the Arctic Ocean on the northernmost edge of Yukon, Canada. ...
Ancient intervention could boost dwindling water reserves in coastal Peru
Nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains, Peru's coastal region relies on surface water from the Andes for ...
Stresses from past earthquakes explain location of seismic events
Credit: University of Plymouth The cumulative stresses caused by historic earthquakes could provide some explanation as to why and where ...
How nurses bring clarity to the nature of social change
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (June 11, 2019) - History provides an enhanced understanding of the factors that inform social policy. ...
Breakthrough in the discovery of DNA in ancient bones buried in water
Credit: Anna Wessman 2019 During the Iron Age around 300 AD something extraordinary was initiated in Levänluhta area in Isokyrö, ...
Trailblazing findings on the properties of daguerreotypes discovered by The Met and UNM
Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) and The University of New Mexico (UNM) ...
The Neolithic precedents of gender inequality
Researchers from the University of Seville have published an ambitious study of gender inequality in prehistoric Iberia Researchers from the ...
Dramatic change in ancient nomad diets coincides with expansion of networks across Eurasia
Credit: I. Reese and A. R. Ventresca Miller, 2017 A meta-analysis of dietary information recorded in the bones of ancient ...
More mysterious jars of the dead unearthed in Laos
Credit: Image: ANU ANU and Uni of Melbourne Archaeologists have discovered 15 new sites in Laos containing more than one ...
What’s your attitude about body hair removal?
New study lays bare cultural reasons around the globe for bikini waxing and man-scaping As beachgoers scramble to trim their ...
Spanish flu may have lingered two years before 1918 outbreak and vaccine could have treated it
The most severe pandemic in recent history, killing some 50 million people worldwide, the Spanish influenza, may have emerged up ...
Phase transitions: The math behind the music
Physics professor applies tools of statistical mechanics to explain why basic ordered patterns emerge in music across time and culturesCredit: ...
Ancient proteins offer clues to the past
Archeologists once relied solely on artifacts, such as skeletal remains, fossils and pottery sherds, to learn about past species and ...
Civil War plant medicines blast drug-resistant bacteria in lab tests
Confederate field hospitals turned to traditional remedies under Union blockadeCredit: Photo by Stephen Nowland, Emory University During the height of ...
From witchcraft to ‘bloody flux’: astrology doctors’ 400-year-old case notes transcribed
Credit: Bodleian Library, Oxford Simon Forman and his protégé Richard Napier were infamous in early 17th-century England for their apparent ...
Ernst Haeckel: Pioneer of modern science
Science historians at the University of Jena (Germany) explain Ernst Haeckel's definition of ecologyCredit: (Image: Anne Guenther/FSU) (Jena, Germany) "By ...
BGI Nobel Laureates Archives established at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Credit: Connie Brukin/2019 Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has received a USD $5 million donation ...
Abrupt climate change drove early South American population decline
Abrupt climate change some 8,000 years ago led to a dramatic decline in early South American populations, suggests new UCL ...