Genome of the last living wild horse species mapped
On Jun. 13. 2024, University of Minnesota researchers announced they have successfully mapped the complete genome of the…
On Jun. 13. 2024, University of Minnesota researchers announced they have successfully mapped the complete genome of the…
On Jun. 7, 2024, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona announced an analysis of genome data from…
On May 15, 2024, researchers at Brazil’s Federal University of São Paulo announced they had found ancient herpes…
On Jul. 30, 2022, scientists announced they had sequenced the genome of a 6,000-year-old Citrullus seeds that revealed…
Around 500 BCE, Hippocrates, a pioneering physician in the history of Medicine, and considered as the principal author…
World’s oldest evidence dating to 23000 BCE for the earliest small-scale plant cultivation was discovered by Dani Nadel…
In 470, Atossa, daughter of Cyrius the Great and wife of Darius I, the King of the Achaemenid…
Around 600 BCE, Chinese healers created the first antibiotic – moldy soybean curds – to treat boils.
Archeological evidence points to human use of pigeons as a food source as early as 10,000 years ago…
In 583 BCE, the Council of Lyons in Lyon, France restricted lepers from freely associating with healthy persons.
Around 8000 BCE, farmers in China, Egypt and Sumeria began using fermentation to produce cheese and wine. One…
Around 100 BCE, Chinese growers used powdered chrysanthemum (pyrethrins) as the first insecticide.
On Sept. 2 , 2021, an Oxford University Study showed that the most recent common ancestor of these…
Greek philosopher Theophrastus (371-287 BCE), the “Father of Botany” wrote of Greeks rotating their staple crops with broad…
On Sept. 30, 2020, researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…
On Sept. 24, 2020, an international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in…
On Oct. 15, 2019, scientists reported that date palms are one of the oldest domesticated perennial crops, with…
On Oct. 29, 2018, Archaeological evidence of cacao’s use, dating back to 3,900 years ago, previously planted the…
On. Nov. 13, 2017, research by Dr. Patrick McGovern, Director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory at the University…
On Mar. 2, 2017, scientists discovered the oldest evidence of life on Earth in fossilized microorganisms that are…
On Oct. 31, 2016, scientists reported that humans domestication of crops and livestock are dated to 14000 BCE…
On Oct. 19, 2015, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) geochemists announced evidence that life likely existed on…
On Jan. 6, 2012, scientists reported that small-seeded soybeans indicating wild-type soybeans date to 9,000 years ago. Historical…
On Jan. 8, 2005, researchers from Baylor University Medical Center reported that although the origin of smallpox is…
On Nov. 20, 1990, Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park” novel was pulbished, introducing DNA technology to a wide audience….
On May 4, 1925, a Chattanooga newspaper ran an item noting that the American Civil Liberties Union was…
In 430 BCE, a plague struck the city of Athens, which was then under siege by Sparta during…
In 400 BCE, Greek historian Herodotus wrote of Scythians archers from the Black Sea region that used poison-tipped…
Around 8000 BCE, Potatoes, the world’s most widely grown tuber crop, were first cultivated for food in area…