In A Nutshell Between 1250 and 1400 CE, Peru’s Chincha Kingdom mastered seabird guano fertilization, enabling agriculture in one of Earth’s driest deserts centuries before the Inca Empire arrived ...

Prioritizing playing like an advanced board game rather than a history simulator, Civilization has always been light on historical accuracy. Usually, most civilizations in the Civilization games only ...

Detecting patterns is an important part of how humans learn and make decisions. Now, researchers have seen what is happening in people's brains as they first find patterns in information they are ...

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...

For more than a century, Egyptologists have dated the Great Pyramid to around 2580 BC, about 4,600 years ago. A controversial new study now claims the monument could be tens of thousands of years ...

A central pattern generator (CPG) is a neuronal network in which interconnected excitatory and inhibitory neurons produce an oscillating, rhythmic output in the absence of sensory feedback. CPGs play ...