Stanford psychologist Jeremy Bailenson, who studies how immersive environments reshape perception, has shown that extended ...

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...

The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Have you ever wondered how we got here on Earth, and how it all began? From the Archean Eon to the Holocene Epoch, some ...

Archaeological investigations along Maharashtra's Konkan coast have dramatically extended India's timeline for human artistic ...

The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago.

It really just shows how long people have been making rock art in that part of the world,” an archaeology professor said of ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created a new way to improve our understanding of the ...

Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean billions of years ago ...