A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has ...

In a discovery reshaping the understanding of prehistoric cultures in Eurasia, archaeologists found an 8,400-year-old stone ...

Scientists at Goethe University uncover how the oldest enzyme in cellular respiration functions – opening the door to ...

Ancient microbes illustrate a particular kind of respiration in which carbon dioxide and hydrogen are combined to form acetic ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...

The handful animal ghosts in the ancient world are often depicted not as friendly visitors but as mere tools for humans – and ...