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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A team of scientists at King’s College London thinks there might be another way. They’ve found that keratin — the same ...

The “Herring Lassies,” also known as “Herring Girls” or “Scots Fisher Lassies,” represented a substantial and dynamic female workforce that moved around and followed the herring. They came from the ...