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New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

The ancient Egyptians practiced human sacrifice around 5,000 years ago, a new study finds.

This 1,400-year-old Maya urn features skulls, underworld gods, and a deceased ancestor dressed like a jaguar.

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Google has updated its guidelines to forbid the use of fake bylines, AI-generated headshots, and other acts of "deception."

The first people in the Americas arrived no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but 'there are huge gaps in our genetic dataset,' a new study reports.

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

You can now see a facial reconstruction — and the particular hairstyle — of a man who lived more than 3,000 years ago in what is now Ecuador.

GPT-6 Astra has been used to solve a centuries-old cipher used to convey strategic military information between Napoleon's troops.

Turns out ‘Steamboat Willie’ was actually a documentary.

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The state’s outbreak is the largest in the U.S.

Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.

Brown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least.

Enabling identification and repatriation of the remains of migrants who have perished along the Texas-Mexico border.

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An elaborate 4,000-year-old defensive wall was discovered in Morocco, and it once protected a thriving farming hub, archaeologists say.

Archaeologists excavating at Hadrian’s Villa outside of Rome have unearthed a marble slab dedicated to Summanus, the god of nocturnal lightning.

A tomb dating back to the time the Romans controlled Egypt contains a funerary poem in ancient Greek.

Archaeological excavations in the Lake Tagua Tagua basin in central Chile have revealed stone tools and animal bones with cut marks dated to 13,000 years ago.

Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

The Battersea Shield was discovered in the 19th century at the bottom of the Thames. Archaeologists still aren't sure how it ended up there.