Associate Professor Martin Danisík explains that ancient atmospheric and oceanic changes played a crucial role in ...

A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when ...

Research led by Jilin University, China, is providing bioarchaeological evidence on a mass grave at the Bayanbulag site in ...

A University of Vienna study suggests that the solar system's movement through the galaxy affected Earth's climate millions ...

This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers who used isotope analysis to determine whether the Iron Age skulls were of locals (and therefore being venerated in death ...

Our ancient ancestors have done some interesting things to human bones over the years, but one example from the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula is a real puzzle.

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

The scholar Piotr Bienkowski studied archaeology at Liverpool University (BA and PhD) before he got involved in Jordanian Iron Age sites in 1980.The founding director of the British Institute at Amman ...

The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

The smoking gun is an isotope of iron called iron-60, which has been found in large amounts on the seafloor. Being radioactive, any of this stuff that formed with Earth would have broken down long ...

That could be an accelerant for evolutionary changes or mutations in cells.” The key to understanding this 2.5-million-year-old cellular drama is iron-60, an isotope of iron primarily produced in the ...