DNA study shows the deadly potato blight came from South America.

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

Rabinbach joined Princeton’s faculty in 1996 and transferred to emeritus status in 2019. He served as director of the ...

Flooding, famine, plagues. Historical documents from diaries to parish registers detail the dramatic impacts of the Little ...

The planned $4 billion cut in funding for scientific inquiry to the nation’s universities and academic medical institutions ...

Accounts from the 16th century show how extreme climate events affected communities — and could help us prepare for the ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

However, 27 species not recorded in earlier data have been documented, attributed to citizen science initiatives and improved ...

These bloody words were written by 19th-Century antiquarian H.S. Cuming in On the discovery of Celtic crania in the vicinity ...

The son of a formerly enslaved mother, Charles Henry Turner was the first to discover that bees and other insects have the ...

“This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably already had a global distribution and were much more ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...