The 2,000-year-old geoglyphs offer clues to the ancient Nazca people and their rituals.

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

Cats are quicker than babies to associate a picture of a word with its corresponding picture, new research shows.

Nov. 7, 2024 — Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final ...

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Ned Rozell ned.rozell@alaska.edu is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute. A version of this story appeared in 2015.

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

Surprisingly, for a company so stringent about privacy and security, Apple has given users unfettered access to its emoji ...

Google has released its 2024 Halloween Google Doodle game, featuring the return of a cute magical black cat who fights ghosts ...

In the late 1960s, long-haired, beaded and tie-dyed flower children brought their drugs, incense, guitars and peace symbols to South Florida. Hippies had finally reached Miami. Coconut Grove ...