Scientists build DNA from scratch to alter life’s blueprint
by Malcolm Ritter
At Jef Boeke's lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here.
But he...
Ancient Fossils Reveal the First Humans Emerged 170,000 Years Earlier than We Thought
The first modern humans may have emerged up to 350,000 years ago—170,000 years earlier than previously thought. Analysis of ancient DNA has allowed scientists...
More Scientific Support for Planet 9
New observations of a distant exoplanet and its solar system offer proof of a long-standing astronomical theory: passing stars can perturb planetary systems and...
Scientists Photograph BIRTH OF TIME with Astonishing new Dark Matter Camera
By Paul BaldwinFor the first 300,000 years after the Big Bang the rapidly expanding universe was dark and filled with neutral hydrogen gas doing...
RIP Jim Marrs
Acclaimed investigative journalist and beloved member of the conspiracy theory and UFO research community, Jim Marrs, has passed away.
After several years working as a...
Cassini finds building blocks of life in our own solar system, on Saturn’s moon...
By Andrew Griffin
An important molecule that can produce life and organic material has been found elsewhere in our solar system.
Scientists have been shocked to...
The Greeks really do have near-mythical origins, ancient DNA reveals
By Ann Gibbons
Ever since the days of Homer, Greeks have long idealized their Mycenaean “ancestors” in epic poems and classic tragedies that glorify the...
Egyptologists go high tech to unlock ancient mysteries
From the Giza pyramids to the pharaonic tombs of Luxor, Egypt's ancient monuments are holding onto mysteries which researchers now aim to unravel with...
‘Lost city’ discovery: Kansas site sheds new light on Native American history
Archaeologists have found incredible evidence of a huge Wichita Indian town in Kansas that was once home to 20,000 people.
Donald Blakeslee, a professor of...
ISIS Makes up to $100 MILLION a Year Smuggling Ancient Artifacts
BY CALLUM PATON
The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) makes as much as $100 million annually by trafficking looted antiquities out of Iraq and Syria and selling them on the...