In some Siberian tribes, as the Saami reindeer herders, it's common practice to use reindeer as a means of transport, food, ...

Danish archaeologists believe they have found the remains of the fabled Viking town Silasthorp by the Schlei bay in northern Germany, near the Danish border. According to texts from the 8th century, ...

Archaeologists have learned a lot about the lives of Iron Age Europeans from the mummified remains preserved in bogs--including how they dressed. But not even the best-preserved bog can withstand the ...

A Danish bog has been harbouring a terrifying secret for thousands of years. Archaeologists have spent all summer excavating a small sample of what has turned out to be a mass grave containing ...

Circumcision, whereby the foreskin is removed from the penis, can cause the urethral opening to narrow, making it difficult to urinate. The condition is called meatal stenosis and the risk of ...

Every year, when summer makes way for fall, many enthusiasts set out into the woods in search of the finest catch for their table. Hunters? No- or at least not from an animal’s perspective. In fact, ...

You’ve likely heard this question before, and as we know, some things stick in our minds while others do not. Right? Momentous events, like the birth of a child or the loss of a loved one, remain ...

In 2018 the Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to three researchers: George P. Smith, Gregory P. Winter, and Frances H. Arnold for their invention of ‘directed evolution’. Since its invention, it ...

Although water covers 70 percent of the Earth's surface, water is actually a rare substance that represents just 0.05 percent of the Earth's total mass. Water has nevertheless played a crucial role in ...

Tempting shops, endless work, entertaining video games, binge eating, daily sex, or excessive exercise. Do you know how it feels to be addicted to your own behaviour? Research shows that we can become ...

The biggest DNA study on ancient people rewrites European history. Modern Europeans were born in the Bronze Age after a large wave of immigration by a nomadic people known as Yamnaya who came from the ...

The vast majority of people know cravings: that intense urge for a particular food that occurs, for example, when you sit on the sofa and just HAVE to eat some chocolate. Many believe that cravings ...