The common assumption among historians was that khipus were the exclusive tools of elite male bureaucrats, the khipukamayuqs.

The bone container is a hollowed-out sheep or goat femur intentionally sealed at one end with a birch-bark tar plug. It ...

Chemicals may be turning female birds into males in the wild and the phenomenon might be more common than we think.

The internet has rewritten the rules for how we work, how we shop, and even how we fall in love. In the mid-20th century, ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand suggests that people who deliberately choose a ...

The 5,700-year-old remains bear chilling signs of slaughter and consumption.

In a first, CRISPR-modified donor cells sidestep the immune system.

Now, researchers at University College London and their collaborators have engineered a new class of indoor solar cell that ...

It’s not uncommon for scientists to find the occasional oddity in the middle of the North Pacific. But just North of Hawaii, ...

In the lexicon of economic afflictions, “stagflation” is one of the bad ones. The term (a portmanteau of “stagnation” and ...

But between the Roman era and the first sustained arrival of Africans, most enslaved, during the Tudor era (early 16th ...