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Divers swimming through Heracleion have discovered a trove of artifacts, including the remains of a temple, gold jewelry, coins and the missing piece of a ceremonial boat,
A group of cross-party MPs who've been on a fact-finding trip to Canada predict the UK will fully legalise cannabis use within five to ten years.
Astronomers in Brazil and the United States separately discovered 2019 OK a couple of days ago, but it's surprise visit was only announced a couple of hours before it passed by.
The Sioux Nation is fighting back by building the largest solar energy farm in North Dakota.
The team behind the research hope their findings might one day help us create new painkillers that come without the troublesome side effect of potential addiction.
An inscribed ancient Egyptian scarab and five clay tablets with carvings of naked women have been found in Rehob, a 3,500-year-old city in Israel.
Until recently only three mounds were known to exist at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians historic site.
They understood the importance of soil management to fend off starvation on an island which had no natural resources and was exposed to inclement and violent weather and climate.
A new study, coordinated by Sapienza, claims to have discovered the oldest lunar calendar in the world in a pebble that was carved during the Upper Paleolithic period.
A new study has found that the mammalian brain is far more susceptible to bogus data than previously thought, and it raises an intriguing mystery.
The two bone fragments were unearthed from a dig site in northern China.
The unknown structure sits in a fortification in Derbent that dates to around A.D. 300.
Modeling the shape and movement of near-Earth asteroids is now up to 25 times faster thanks to new research.
A new project aims to catalogue hundreds of ancient symbols, drawn from long-gone civilizations as well as present-day indigenous communities.
The story of the only undisputed Norse site in the Americas just got more complicated.
The ancestors of modern humans met and genetically mixed with a number of archaic human groups, including Neandertals and Denisovans, and several others for which we currently have no name.
Remains of Neolithic site near Motza, the largest ever discovered in Israel, show mix of agriculture, hunting, animal husbandry — a society at its peak, say archaeologists.
It has long been suspected that the southern North Sea hides a vast landscape that once was home to thousands of people.
Support for advancing reconciliation is higher than support for Australia becoming a republic.
Poll shows policy-makers are 'significantly behind' tide of public opinion, says former Tory minister.
“What's interesting is that as early as 12,000 years ago those Paleolithic people in Java already had the same concept of production of food that the Neolithic people would have later on.”
Pharoah Sneferu’s structure marks key step in Egyptian architecture, as builders had to change the angle when it started to crack.
Art gallery is to help repair part of the Seven Sisters songline that runs through Australia and preserve it for the Stolen Generations and future generations.
A study by a Texas university places humans in the continent 2,000 years before than science has been maintaining.
With a ban on hiking the formation set for October, tourists are making a last-ditch pilgrimage to set foot on the rock before it’s illegal, creating human traffic jams.
A new study has found that relatively permissive laws were associated with a 9% decrease in frequent cannabis use by high-school students in the US.
Ancient Greeks embarked on at least 3,500 maritime voyages to transport between 7,000-10,000 tonnes of white marble from one Aegean island to another.
Three-rooted molars in modern humans could have come from Denisovans.
A comprehensive re-analysis of a skull fragment found in a Greek cave back in the late 1970s suggests early modern humans were present in Eurasia some 210,000 years ago.
Five exhausted canoeists proved July 9 it is possible Japan was settled 30,000 years ago by Old Stone Age people from Taiwan.
Large grazing animals during the Pleistocene drove evolutionary changes in key grains like quinoa and buckwheat and these changes paved the way for domestication.
Researchers at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, analysed annual national Youth Risk Behaviour Surveys from 1993 through to 2017.
Iraq's leadership celebrates vote on ancient city where dynasties have risen and fallen since the earliest days of settled human civilization.
NASA says it can’t afford to build a space telescope considered the fastest way to identify asteroids that might impact the Earth with terrible consequences.
These mysterious people may have fled collapsing societies in southern Europe for Israel.
Scientists fear a repeat of the 2013 strike in Russia and the devastating 1908 impact.
Simulations show left-handed killer smashed victim over the head twice in quick succession.
The ‘rare and beautiful’ 3,000-year-old sculpture goes under the hammer in defiance of claims it was stolen.
The bill, known as the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, permits the state to automatically grant clemency to residents who were convicted for possessing up to 30 grams of cannabis.
Londoners overwhelmingly support the legalisation of cannabis for adult recreational use, according to a poll.
Could 16 Psyche make every person on Earth a billionaire? The space mining race is heating up.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women represent 2% of Australia’s female population but make up 34% of all women in prison, June Oscar told the Human Rights Council on Friday.
2.3 million Americans are behind bars — the largest prison population on the planet. Many are there for possession of marijuana when more than half the states have legalized or decriminalized it.
In what it called a “breakthrough”, the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy declared it had detected Saturday’s relatively small incoming asteroid in advance in a press statement.
Our DNA today is speckled with contributions from ancient hominin groups who lived alongside us, but did not survive to the present day.
A famous astrophysicist (and guitar player) tells all about an ambitious mission to save humanity from asteroids, should one ever threaten Earth.
The sophisticated tech requires specialized training and expensive equipment, but researchers have recently been trying to make its use more widespread.
Fossilised jaw of baby diprotodon, a type of megafauna extinct for millennia, extracted in NSW by Australian Museum.
While capuchins won't use tools like us any time soon, the species now “has its own individual archaeological record,” scientists report.
Scientists, scholars, astrophysicists, engineers, students and academics will gather in 192 countries to be part of the official United Nations’ day of awareness and education.
Proteins dating back more than one million years have been extracted from some fossils, and could help to answer some difficult questions about archaic humans.
DNA coaxed from 120,000-year-old Neanderthal fossils suggests that early Neanderthals from Western Europe and later Neanderthals from Siberia were closely related.
A small, harmless space rock turned into a fireball in our atmosphere. What's unusual is that astronomers saw it beforehand.
The Swiss government has proposed to allow prescriptions for cannabis to treat people suffering from cancer or other serious conditions.
Illinois has become the 11th state in the country to legalize the recreational use and purchase of marijuana.
Lima, Peru’s capital, is running dangerously low on water, but archaeology may provide an answer in the form of a system of water storage developed by the area’s indigenous people 1,400 years ago.
Doubts have swirled around disputed archaeological 'discoveries' of this La Ciudad Blanca, but one fact is finally clear: this rich environment, mythical or not, harbours a unique ecosystem of animal life.
A new study suggests the plant could treat bacterial skin infections
A new approach could catalyze solar energy’s potential to create a brighter future for tribal communities facing energy insecurity and high unemployment.
Exactly what will happen when our planet sweeps through the Taurid Complex is unknown, but astronomers are preparing to observe the contents of the cosmic debris.
A report advises the French government to normalize cannabis related jobs and allocate part of the tax revenue generated by legalization to improving low-income neighborhoods.
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New York lawmakers couldn’t agree on some details for legalization, so they passed a decriminalization measure instead.
Small pieces of charred tubers found at the Klasies River site in South Africa date back 120,000 years, making them the earliest-known evidence of H. sapiens cooking carbs.
One of seven orcas captured using nets and explosives then sold to aquariums, Lolita lives out her days being forced to perform tricks twice a day for visitors.
A crucial realization was that the birds in the geoglyphs are not naturally found near the locations of the lines. Hermits, for example, live on the eastern slope of the Andes and in the north near Ecuador.
Genetic analysis of the animal’s skull shows it had a narwhal mom and beluga dad.
Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts, scientific research and using robots to explore the cosmos over sending humans back to the moon or on to Mars.
State-controlled cannabis stores would be the best way to control drug trafficking and “restrict access” to younger would-be users, they argued.
Indigenous people hope governor’s words to lead to action on land and water rights, education, justice and more.
The Democratic governor called for the creation of a Truth and Healing Council to produce a report before the end of 2024 on the historical relationship between the state and Native Americans.
The results open new ways to study both how chromosomes behave during cell division and how they have changed during human evolution.
The big finding — that ancient hyenas lived in the North American Arctic — is based on two tiny teeth, which archaeologists found in Canada's northern Yukon Territory.
The size of the first population of people needed to arrive, survive, and thrive in what is now Australia is revealed in two studies published today.
Family left 'exhausted and drained' by fight to secure access to drug.
Nasa has released pictures of a highly unusual mountain on the surface of an asteroid.
An enormous stone sphinx representing the pharaoh Ramses II has spent nearly a century in the Egypt Gallery of the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.
The estimated levels of THC in these samples were higher than wild cannabis would normally produce, suggesting intentional cultivation of the plant for its psychoactive powers.
Geometric decorations surround the animals on the sandstone engraving, a telltale sign that whoever made them was part of the Azilian industry.
Nasa has warned about the dangers of asteroids in the future – but not this one.
Space object about a mile wide believed to have crashed into Earth around 1.2bn years ago.
Officials fear bust of pharaoh might have been looted from Karnak temple in Luxor.
A grape variety still used in wine production in France today can be traced back 900 years to just one ancestral plant, scientists have discovered.
Even religious bodies are seeing the light when it comes to cannabis. The Church of England will relax a self-imposed ban and consider investments in medical marijuana.
An ancient, cosmopolitan lineage of plants is shaking up scientists' understanding of how quickly species evolve in temperate ecosystems and why.
A woman known as Kolyma1, who lived in northeastern Siberia about 10,000 years ago, shares about two-thirds of her genome with living Native Americans.
What would happen if the hands of time were turned back to an arbitrary point in our evolutionary history and we restarted the clock?
The studies suggest a land bridge connected the West Indies with South America 30 million years ago, allowing the slow-moving animals to reach the islands.
Two children’s milk teeth buried deep in a remote archaeological site in north eastern Siberia have revealed a previously unknown group of people lived there during the last Ice Age.
Astronomers are now closely monitoring the upcoming Beta Taurids shower after data analysis showed that this year’s event will bring the swarm of meteors closest to Earth.
New studies show that humans are not the only intelligent organisms living on Earth, but we are still a long way from fully understanding how smart whales and dolphins really are.
Archaeologists just assumed that women made the pottery at Chaco Canyon 1,000 years ago. Then they started thinking like cops—and things got interesting.
The idea to draw on African mythology and spirituality also adds the layer of a colonized people digging into their past to discover its richness.
The Aboriginal woman whose healing power is described as ‘a miracle’ comes from a long family lineage of healers.
A collaborative study led by archaeologists, geneticists and museum curators is providing answers to previously unsolved questions about life in sub-Saharan Africa thousands of years ago.
Identifying the movements of extinct species from millions of years ago can provide insights into ancient migration routes, interaction between species, and the movement of continents.
Charred material found in South Africa suggests humans digested starch long before farming.
After a treacherous volcanic eruption during the Bronze Age, curious humans and their canine companions hiked closer to the volcano, where they left footprints in the fine-grained volcanic ash.
The discovery may explain how these buildings have survived for so long in earthquake zones.
There are 319 officially recognized archaeological sites in Sarasota County, and 66 of them are likely to contain human remains.
The state's Senate on Wednesday passed legislation on a 38-17 vote that would allow adults to buy and possess small amounts of marijuana.