Over the last 20 years, genetic research has changed dramatically. An explosion of genomic data has reshaped how we ...

Israel’s strategies reach far beyond borders or minorities. Its vision for Syria is one of permanent fragmentation ...

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By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

The map highlights the city of Palmyra in central Syria, as well as the ancient city of Apamea, and the city of Aleppo in the northwest. But up close, the damage from Syria’s 13-year civil war ...

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Whether biking to castles or kayaking through gorges, a trip centred on this river is the epitome of European romance.

reviving seeds from the “most ancient geography in the world.” The long-defunct crops of their Neolithic ancestors, Erdogan and Saracoglu suggest, contain a road map to creating a new ...

Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside, as the old song goes. But better yet, with a cold beer in hand at a British pub.

Trent Lewin has made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize shortlist for Ghostworlds . He will receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and his work has been published on CBC Books.

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide—but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study of hundreds of ancient human genomes.