In 2000, a man walking his dog in Norfolk beaches found a strange stone tool that rewrote what scientists knew about Britain’s ancient historyA chance beach discovery in Norfolk, UK, has rewritten early human history in northern Europe. A worked flint tool, found in 2000, revealed...
23 May, 2026, 01.54 PM IST
India-Trinidad archival pact to help diaspora trace ancestral roots: JaishankarExternal Affairs Minister S Jaishankar announced an archival cooperation agreement between India and Trinidad and Tobago. This pact will as...
10 May, 2026, 02.50 PM IST
A Stanford study just rewrote the Bengal cat's origin storyNew research reveals Bengal cats' striking looks originate from common house cats. For years, people believed their wild ancestry was respo...
09 May, 2026, 10.39 AM IST
The AI analyzed 1,974 unclassified tracks and raised some very troubling questions about the “bird tracks”New research uses artificial intelligence to analyze ancient footprints. This study suggests bird-like relatives may have existed millions ...
29 Apr, 2026, 10.38 AM IST
Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn’t BeFossilized human footprints discovered in Saudi Arabia's Nefud Desert, dating back 115,000 years, challenge traditional migration theories....
28 Apr, 2026, 07.10 PM IST
Quote of the day by Ralph Waldo Emerson: 'Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions...' ; what we can learn about important of learning from mistakes from American authorEmbracing life as a continuous experiment, Ralph Waldo Emerson advocated for bold action and learning from every attempt. His philosophy em...
23 Apr, 2026, 03.11 PM IST
From Dirt to Discovery: How Cave Sediments Are Revealing Ice Age Species Without BonesResearchers are now analyzing ancient DNA found in soil to identify extinct species, revolutionizing prehistoric ecosystem research. This i...
09 Apr, 2026, 05.23 PM IST
Test of Sarma Shiksha Abhiyan in Assam Polls amid welfare gains and social faultlinesAssam's election sees BJP promising daily expulsion of Bangladeshi infiltrators. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's aggressive stance on ...
04 Apr, 2026, 11.00 AM IST
How we came to be: Scientists get first look at the evolution of early complex animalsNew fossils discovered in China’s Yunnan province show that complex animal life began millions of years earlier than previously thought, du...
03 Apr, 2026, 08.51 AM IST
New law opens Canada citizenship route for millions in USMillions of Americans with Canadian roots can now get Canadian passports. A new law, effective December 15, 2025, grants citizenship by des...
01 Apr, 2026, 11.12 AM IST
Before LUCA, who came first? New study suggests life existed before the last universal common ancestorScientists now believe life began long before LUCA. Older organisms, now vanished, passed on vital genetic tools. These 'pre-LUCA' ancestor...
16 Feb, 2026, 03.51 PM IST
50,000-year-old viruses still present in human bodies! Ancient skeletons unravel medical mysteriesNeanderthal bones from our ancient relatives that are aged over 50,000 years have many kinds of viruses that are still found in humans, acc...
23 May, 2024, 10.55 PM IST
Tracing your family rootsPursuing one's family roots can take various forms, from delving into genealogical records and archives to talking to elder relatives who h...
05 Feb, 2024, 11.03 PM IST
99% Muslims in India are Hindustani by their ancestry, culture and motherland: RSS leaderKumar was addressing the concluding ceremony of the two-day state-level workshop of activists of the Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), the Musl...
13 Nov, 2022, 07.55 PM IST
Desi expert traces ‘great grandpa’ of SARS-CoV-2The ancestor, or progenitor genome, it turned out, had been around since at least October 2019 and survived till March 2020.
10 Jun, 2021, 10.40 AM IST
Flowers abruptly proliferated on Earth millions of years agoThe newly sequenced genome of the Amborella plant reveals how flowers may have suddenly proliferated on Earth millions of years ago.
21 Dec, 2013, 12.04 PM IST
Consequences of Adam and Eve living in the same eraAdam was older than previously believed and sowed his wild oats roughly around the same time as his primeval female counterpart.
05 Aug, 2013, 04.00 AM IST