Sharpening tools is no easy task.  If you've ever tried to do it yourself you know that prehistoric man had to have developed real skill to sharpen stone tools - using pressure flaking, no less…

At the dinner held 10 days ago for those who had retired as our department finally closed the day before, my previous PI (until 2002) recommended me to read The Origins of the British: The New…

I had no idea there were entire languages left to discover.   Then again, I had no idea there was a group called the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages either, but exist they both…

Some of the most pressing questions in science aren't how to better treat cancer or solve global warming, they're instead practical things like why a stranger on the Internet takes you off of a…

New research by archaeologists from the University of York says that Neanderthals were a lot more compassionate than their reputation as brutish cavemen. How do you chart the 'compassion' of early…

There are only some science subjects if you go by the word science i.e. social science , political science, military science which have science word attached to them . Clearly they deal with society…

Since the man came to present form the countries originated around the globe and within a span of 50 years the number of member of United Nations has increased in several dozens in a span of 40…

Did Neanderthals develop `modern' tools and ornaments solely through contact with Homo sapiens, or could they adapt, innovate and evolve technology on their own?   A new anthropology study…

Multidisciplinary collaborative research teams are essential in modern day science - climate scientists need to make more accurate numerical models and genome data in biology can be overwhelming and…

The soon-to-be-published and complete Danish translation of all the Icelandic sagas, a literary cornerstone of the Western canon, will fundamentally change our perception of the Viking heroes that…