A new DNA study of unprecedented size has unveiled ancient human movements that shaped the genetic makeup of present-day South Asians in complex ways. Those long-ago treks across vast grasslands and ...

Everywhere you look in this corner of Shanghai, there are mice. For Wang Zhugang, this is cause for great delight. After spending several years researching molecular medicine at New York City’s ...

The largest-ever study of ancient human DNA, along with the first genome of an individual from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, reveal in unprecedented detail the shifting ancestry of Central ...

Manila, Philippines – Science met culture at “It’s all Relative: Discovering the Filipino Identity through Forensic Science”, hosted by Asia Society Philippines, with the support of Asian Institute of ...

India and Pakistan are no strangers to extreme temperatures. In 2015, two heat waves killed more than 3,500 people there. But by the end of the century, new climate simulations suggest, extreme heat ...

Whole skeleton of a ~8,400-year-old individual from Qihe cave, Fujian, China. This individual’s southern ancestry can be found along the coast of mainland southern China and islands in the Taiwan ...

The fossilized jaw of a pint-size primate that lived about 35 million years ago in Asia has been unearthed in Thai coal mines. The new species, dubbed Krabia minuta, after the Krabi coal mines where ...

About 60 million people in Bangladesh are exposed to unsafe levels of arsenic in their drinking water, dramatically raising their risk for cancer and other serious diseases. Because most of the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The glaciers in Asia's Tian Shan mountains have lost more than a quarter of their total mass over ...

The big question among Americanists (experts on New World anthropology) is: How original were the American Indians? The orthodox theory is that the first Indians immigrated from Asia (via Alaska) in ...

European colonization of the Americas brought smallpox, starvation and warfare that decimated indigenous populations. But the canine companions that crossed the Bering Strait with the ancient people ...