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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.
People in Europe ate seaweed for thousands of years before it largely disappeared from their diets – new research
Yarlander / Shutterstock Karen Hardy, University of Glasgow and Stephen Buckley, University of York Seaweed isn’t something that…
Indo-European Languages: New Study Reconciles Two Dominant Hypotheses About Their Origin
The Anatolian landscape in Turkey. lay london/Shutterstock Kim Schulte, Universitat Jaume I The languages in the Indo-European family…
Did Napoleon Steal a Mosasaur Skull?
The children of the Dutch university city of Maastricht occasionally visit a replica of a Mosasurus skull, as…
Waterlogged Site In Zambia Unveils 476,000-Year-Old Wooden Structure
A groundbreaking discovery in Zambia has unveiled the oldest wooden structure known to humanity, predating Homo sapiens’ appearance…
How Did We Get Around to Solving for X?
We always seem to supplant the unknown with the letter “X,” but its history stretches far beyond its…
We’ve Come So Close to Annihiliating Ourselves—Multiple Times
Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer helmed research that would end a world war; unfortunately, what he found would forever…
Yes, “Doggerland” Is a Real Place—And Its Role in Human Evolution and Dispersion Is Critical
Coastal strollers along British beaches have occasionally reported sightings of old wooden tools and even human bones along…
What would an ancient Egyptian corpse have smelled like? Pine, balsam and bitumen – if you were nobility
Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Photo: Christian Tepper. Nicole Boivin, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and Barbara Huber, Max…
Paleolithic Prey Size Drives Evolution of Hunting Tools and Human Cognition
A recent study by Tel Aviv University‘s Department of Archaeology researchers sheds light on the fascinating interplay between…
Almost half of Moon missions fail. Why is space still so hard?
Gail Iles, RMIT University In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and ended…