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We are makers of history, yet we are also molded by it. The line connecting us to our ancestors spans decades, centuries, and millennia; the lessons learned from our progenitors are passed down the generations through timeless stories and discovered remnants of our enigmatic yet beautiful past. Modern Sciences recounts the passage of time, how humanity has shaped it, and how it has shaped humanity.
SpaceX Launches Historic Inspiration4 Mission
(To donate to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, feel free to visit the St. Jude page dedicated to…
Southeast Asia Had East Asian Heritage Before the Austronesians Ever Got There
It has long been recognized that the Austronesians, an ancient ethnolinguistic lineage of humans, were at least one…
Ancient Hominins Leaving Africa May Have Crossed a “Green” Arabia
There’s much evidence out there to suggest that ancient hominins—a group that also includes the ancestors of us…
9,000-Year-Old Evidence For Beer Brewing Found in China
An archaeological dig at Qiaotou, a town in the Zhejiang province of China, yielded a couple of clay…
A Filipino Indigenous Population May Possess the Most Denisovan Ancestry
Since their discovery just a few decades ago, the Denisovans have become a subject of heated discussion and…
How to Detect Gravitational Waves (With a Bit of Luck)
Alpha Centauri is the closest star system and the closest planetary system to our own. Consisting of three…
The Bone Wars: How a Bitter Rivalry Gave the Spotlight to Paleontology
No, that’s not a Star Wars joke; there was a time—a long time ago, in a continent far,…
Climate Change Is Erasing the World’s Oldest Rock Art in Sulawesi
Inside the Leang Tedongnge Cave in the Maros-Pangkep region of Sulawesi, Indonesia, scientists found hand stencil artwork on…
Syrian Pyramid Burial Mound Could Be the World’s Oldest War Memorial
A huge, 4,300-year-old pyramid-shaped burial mound in Syria, containing 30 individuals believed to be warriors, could be the…
World’s Oldest Manmade “Quasicrystal” Discovered Under Humanity’s First Nuclear Test Site
5:29:45 a.m. local time. Atop a 100-foot (30.48-meter) tower, a metal-coated plutonium device, called “Gadget,” initiated its implosion.…