Edmond Becquerel, Solar spectra, 1848, photochromatic images. Credit: Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône. A palette of colors on a silver plate: that is what the world’s…
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The original complete skull (without mandible) of a 1,8 million years old Paranthropus robustus (SK-48 Swartkrans (26°00’S 27°45’E), Gauteng,), discovered in South Africa. Collection of…
A new study in The Economic Journal, published by Oxford University Press, suggests that migrating extremists can shape political developments in their destination regions for generations.…
The Transatlantic Slave Trade transported more than 9 million Africans to the Americas between the early 16th and the mid-19th centuries. Scientists are now utilizing…
The largest study to date of the genetic history of ancient populations of Sicily, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands shows a complex pattern of migration…
In Quebec, gravestones did not come into common use until the second half of the 19th century, so historical cemeteries contain many unmarked graves. Inspired…
This is a life-reconstruction of the 200-million-year-old dinosaur track-maker from Mount Morgan. Credit: Dr. Anthony Romilio The dinosaur in the cupboard under the stairs. The…
Caribs hailed from the Northwest Amazon, and archaeologists long believed they never expanded north of the Lesser Antilles. Credit: Painting by John Gabriel Stedman Christopher…
Mathematicians have used a statistical technique to interrogate some of the big “what if” questions in the Second World War battle for Britain’s skies. What…
Rocket bomb damage to Chrysler Works, London, September 12, 1944. Credit: Crown Copyright courtesy of The National Archives A researcher from the University of York…