Scientists have discovered the world's oldest amber in China, a find that pushes back the known history of this ancient plant resin by tens of millions of years. The discovery, described in a new study published in Science Advances,...
The roots of humanity’s first states may have less to do with farming in general and more to do with what was being farmed. A growing body of research suggests cereal grains, not just agriculture itself, played a defining...
Scientists have discovered record concentrations of hidden gold locked inside pyrite, the mineral commonly known as fool's gold, beneath the Pacific Ocean near Japan. The finding could help geologists identify new gold-rich deposits by looking for chemical signatures hidden...
Greece had 423 hospital beds per 100,000 residents, according to figures released by the European Union's statistics agency, Eurostat, for 2024. This places Greece below the average across the 27-nation bloc even as debate continues over hospital funding and...
Greek scientist Angeliki Triantafyllou won the 2026 European Inventor Award in the "Industry" category for developing a method for the production of pea milk containing a high nutritional profile and a relatively smaller environmental carbon footprint.
The Greek biotechnologist is...
The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides, also known as Pedanius Dioscorides, is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for his authoring of De Materia Medica (Περί Ύλης Ιατρικής in the original language of Greek) as well...
Alcohol may have done more than just fuel celebrations in ancient societies. A study led by Václav Hrnčíř from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology suggests that indigenous fermented drinks helped ancient societies grow in size and complexity.
The...
Ancient Greece helped pave the way for modern brain surgery, according to a new historical review that traces the roots of cranial operations back thousands of years.
The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, was led by Marcos...
Long remembered for his violent reign and bizarre behavior, Roman Emperor Caligula may have also possessed a surprising degree of medical knowledge, according to a new study.
In a 2025 paper published in the Proceedings of the European Academy of...
Lovesickness was recognized as a distinct mental illness by physicians in the medieval Islamic world, according to new research. Rather than treating the condition as a form of melancholy, as many physicians in ancient Greece had done, Islamic scholars...
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that bacteria can convert uranium dissolved in water into a stable chemical compound when supplied with glycerol as a food source. The discovery offers new insight into how naturally occurring microbes could...
A new study sheds light on ancient brain preservation, revealing why some human brains survive for thousands of years while the rest of the body disappears. Researchers found that brains buried in wet, low-oxygen environments follow a unique chemical...
A human fossil found in Israel is giving researchers what they call the earliest known evidence of a stabbing, offering a rare look at violence among prehistoric people. Scientists studying the remains, known as Qafzeh 25, found a jaw...
New genetic research reveals a striking Etruscan paradox: the ancient civilization's genes shifted dramatically over the centuries, but its language did not. The findings come from a large study of ancient DNA led by Cosimo Posth of the Department...
