Opening at Paris’s Louvre Museum on April 24, “Olympism: Modern Invention, Ancient Legacy” celebrates the history of the Olympics and its designs from ancient times to today. The exhibition comes as ...

Eelgrass from the Finnish Archipelago Sea. Eelgrasses migrated to the Atlantic from the Pacific hundreds of millennia ago, and that ancient migration left marks on their DNA that still shape them ...

Our perceptions of luxury are today defined by brands like Louis Vuitton, Lexus and Louboutin. But archaeological evidence shows that humankind’s obsession with luxury objects stretches right back to ...

The bestselling author explores how the "past reverberates into the present" in her latest book, out in spring 2026 Marie Benedict is taking readers on another enthralling journey back in time. PEOPLE ...

Deep evolution casts a longer shadow than previously thought, scientists report in a new paper published the week of Aug. 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Smithsonian ...

In the classic 'nature versus nurture' debate, scientists discovered ancient ice ages have shaped the genetics of eelgrasses today -- and those genetics could play a stronger role than the environment ...