Why air pollution plagues a small island deep in the South Pacific
The fresh air of Rapa Nui, an island in the most pristine region of the global ocean, is not as clean as it could be, research suggests. Image: mmmyoso
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Author: Colin
Ancient footprints show children splashed in puddles 11,500 years ago
A set of ancient footprints seems to show children splashing around in water that had pooled in tracks left by a now-extinct ground sloth. Image: David Bustos/Matthew Bennett
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How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life
A new wave of archaeological investigations is reconstructing intimate details of our ancestors’ lives from fossilised footprints. They give us glimpses of everything from parent-child relationships to the thrill of a giant sloth hunt. Image: Bernard Spragg
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Ancient smells reveal secrets of Egyptian tomb
eternal souls still smell sweet. A team of analytical chemists and archaeologists has analysed these scents to help identify the jars’ contents. Image: Stefano Merli
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Greenland’s Vikings may have vanished because they ran out of water
For more than 450 years, Norse settlers from Scandinavia lived—sometimes even thrived—in southern Greenland. Then, they vanished. Was it drought that drove their disappearance? Image: gordontour
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