The ways in which Andean villagers have adapted to a neighboring volcano could offer lessons to other communities in reframing risks and responding to disasters.

When public health protocols disrupt normal funeral and mourning practices, such as in Cameroon, alternative approaches need to be engaged to keep people safe while respecting the dead and their loved ones.

Geoengineering plans to save Arctic ice tend to treat technology as a means for asserting human control over the environment. Instead, we should develop human-nonhuman partnerships to tackle climate change.

A team of archaeologists is working to uncover whether ancient objects in South Africa were once used as sound tools to make noise or music.

A new study demonstrates a method for deciphering the timing of a deceased person’s death using a lock of hair.

Scientists are partnering with brewers to taste test ancient recipes and sip a long-lost past.

The surprising scientific discovery of phosphine in the clouds of Earth’s closest neighboring planet is reanimating questions about humanity’s place in the cosmos.

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Scientists have identified the largest ever assemblage of mammoth bones.