The common assumption among historians was that khipus were the exclusive tools of elite male bureaucrats, the khipukamayuqs.

Chemicals may be turning female birds into males in the wild and the phenomenon might be more common than we think.

The internet has rewritten the rules for how we work, how we shop, and even how we fall in love. In the mid-20th century, ...

The bone container is a hollowed-out sheep or goat femur intentionally sealed at one end with a birch-bark tar plug. It ...

In a first, CRISPR-modified donor cells sidestep the immune system.

A new study from researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand suggests that people who deliberately choose a ...

Now, researchers at University College London and their collaborators have engineered a new class of indoor solar cell that ...

The 5,700-year-old remains bear chilling signs of slaughter and consumption.

It’s not uncommon for scientists to find the occasional oddity in the middle of the North Pacific. But just North of Hawaii, ...

Because the jet is aimed almost directly toward Earth, its brightness is amplified “by a factor of 30 or more,” said co-author Jack Livingston. At the same time, perspective plays a trick on observers ...

The “Herring Lassies,” also known as “Herring Girls” or “Scots Fisher Lassies,” represented a substantial and dynamic female workforce that moved around and followed the herring. They came from the ...