Have you ever wondered what a mummy smells like? According to research reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, it鈥檚 鈥渨oody,鈥 鈥渟picy,鈥 and even 鈥渟weet.鈥
"The Four Freedoms Photographs" reimagines Norman Rockwell's iconic World War II-era paintings through a contemporary lens, featuring a diverse cast of modern Americans.
New research from Northern Arizona University shows that the evolution of fruit鈥攁nd the evolution of fruit-eating primates, the early ancestors of humans鈥攚as influenced by the 鈥渆cosystem engineering鈥 of large sauropods.
Visitors to the exhibit at the Otto G. Richter Library will be able to participate in an augmented reality experience that will transport them to the High Middle Ages.
On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) launches the largest collection of caricatures of Charles Darwin and evolution in history.
Over 500 Cal State Fullerton oral histories documenting the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro will soon be available at the future Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, set to open at the Great Park in Irvine as early as spring 2027.
al State Fullerton oral histories documenting Orange County鈥檚 military history at the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro will soon be accessible to visitors of the future Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum. Set to open at the Great Park in Irvine as early as fall 2026, the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum鈥檚 mission is to preserve Marine aviation history. Its new building will showcase military artifacts and aircraft.
Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna contribute a new piece to this puzzle in collaboration with David Reich's ancient DNA laboratory at Harvard University. They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia between 6.400鈥2.000 BCE. They found out that a newly recognized Caucasus-Lower Volga population can be connected to all Indo-European-speaking populations. The new study is published in Nature.
An analysis of Yelp鈥檚 鈥淏lack-owned business鈥 search function by Oren Reshef at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis shows revealing business owners鈥 race can boost consumer engagement and sales in markets where consumer demand exists.
NUS biologists conduct the first comprehensive population study of all three Asian horseshoe crab species, mapping their population distribution, evolutionary histories and vulnerabilities to climate change to propose customised conservation strategies.
An international team of researchers including Dominic Stratford, PhD, of Stony Brook University and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, have discovered that an ancient human ancestor found in deposits at the Sterkfontein Caves, Australopithecus, which lived more than three million years ago in South Africa, primarily ate plant-based foods. The finding, published in the journal Science, stems from an analysis of tooth enamel from seven Australopithecus fossils and is significant because the emergence of meat eating is thought to be a key driver of a large increase in brain size seen in later hominins.
An international team of researchers reports on unique bird skull in "Palaeontologia Electronica". The flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt in Germany around 45 million years ago. The only other place that a similar skull fossil has been found is the USA.
AIP is launching its first annual research agenda as part of a new strategy to explore pressing topics at the nexus of history, policy, and culture. The Institute鈥檚 2025 agenda is the result of a monthslong engagement with stakeholders, including AIP鈥檚 10 Member Societies, and throughout the year, AIP鈥檚 expert social scientists, historians, librarians, policy analysts, and archivists will work on projects to identify issues where social science, policy analysis, and historical research could provide useful context as the physical sciences community seeks to engage in positive change in how our science is done and by whom.
Using state-of-the-art, high resolution micro-CT scanning, FAU researchers have scanned a full skeleton of a very rare vaquita specimen from the 1960s. The objective of scanning this rare specimen for display purposes is to facilitate the creation of replicas to be commercially available to further education and conservation efforts of this critically endangered species. The completed scans, which required approximately 165 hours, resulted in a total of three terabytes of data.