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A 2,500-year-old DNA discovery is rewriting the story of Iron Age power

Ancient DNA has revealed that powerful Scythian families maintained their status across generations, reshaping what ...

Anthropologists use DNA to identify remains of Revolutionary War soldier who died in 1780

Thanks to DNA, relatives of an American Revolutionary War soldier now know the name of their long-lost cousin who died in ...
University of Chicago News

Thirteen UChicago faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships in July 2026

Fourteen members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.

Scientists found that childbirth can be harder than humans thought, as many primates have babies much bigger than birth canal; some species even dislocate pel…

New research challenges the notion that humans have the hardest childbirth among animals, revealing that many primates, ...

Childbirth is not uniquely difficult to humans

The tight fit of a baby's head through a mother's birth canal, which causes great difficulty in childbirth, is not unique to humans, as previously understood. Instead, some small-bodied primate babies ...

Medical museums often display infant remains – how they were acquired was frequently harrowing and involved eugenic thinking

Trigger warning: this article includes references to infant death and institutional abuse. If you’ve been to a museum about ...
Ancient Origins

Ancient Teeth Reveal All-Female Homo naledi Cave Burials

Analysis of ancient proteins extracted from the fossilized teeth of Homo naledi has revealed a startling new twist in the ongoing mystery of South Africa’s Rising Star cave system. Researchers have ...
Radio France Internationale

Remains of people exhibited in ‘human zoos’ to be returned to French Guiana

In 1892, around 30 men, women and children from the Kali’na and Arawak peoples of French Guiana were brought to Paris to be ...