A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of rotational tools including wheels, according to a new ...

Life on Earth didn’t start off on land. It first originated in aquatic environments, and then about 390 million years ago ...

Armed with advanced technology, decades of expertise, and insights from an NSF-funded study, a multi-institution team of ...

A new analysis of 12,000-year-old stones from Israel shows that they may be the earliest evidence of this society-changing ...

Archaeologists study 12,000-year-old pebbles with central holes Pebbles may represent early rotational tool, aiding textile ...

Scientists uncovered the ancient brain structure of an 80-million-year-old fossil bird named Navaornis hestiae, providing ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.

Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg pay homage to the ongoing human quest for knowledge by documenting its evolution through ...

The virtual system immerses users in various tai chi practice sites, including the ancestral hall of its founders, a peaceful ...