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al State Fullerton oral histories documenting Orange County鈥檚 military history at the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro will soon be accessible to visitors of the future Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum. Set to open at the Great Park in Irvine as early as fall 2026, the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum鈥檚 mission is to preserve Marine aviation history. Its new building will showcase military artifacts and aircraft.

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Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna contribute a new piece to this puzzle in collaboration with David Reich's ancient DNA laboratory at Harvard University. They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia between 6.400鈥�2.000 BCE. They found out that a newly recognized Caucasus-Lower Volga population can be connected to all Indo-European-speaking populations. The new study is published in Nature.

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An analysis of Yelp鈥檚 鈥淏lack-owned business鈥� search function by Oren Reshef at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis shows revealing business owners鈥� race can boost consumer engagement and sales in markets where consumer demand exists.

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NUS biologists conduct the first comprehensive population study of all three Asian horseshoe crab species, mapping their population distribution, evolutionary histories and vulnerabilities to climate change to propose customised conservation strategies.

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An international team of researchers including Dominic Stratford, PhD, of Stony Brook University and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, have discovered that an ancient human ancestor found in deposits at the Sterkfontein Caves, Australopithecus, which lived more than three million years ago in South Africa, primarily ate plant-based foods. The finding, published in the journal Science, stems from an analysis of tooth enamel from seven Australopithecus fossils and is significant because the emergence of meat eating is thought to be a key driver of a large increase in brain size seen in later hominins.

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A new three-year initiative seeks to preserve and sustain traditional communication practices among Navajo and Lakota communities.

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An international team of researchers reports on unique bird skull in "Palaeontologia Electronica". The flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt in Germany around 45 million years ago. The only other place that a similar skull fossil has been found is the USA.

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Born in Haiti and raised in Quebec, the young researcher has joined UdeM鈥檚 history department as an assistant professor.

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An UdeM assistant professor travelled to the war zone as part of an international project to help preserve the country鈥檚 important buildings.

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AIP is launching its first annual research agenda as part of a new strategy to explore pressing topics at the nexus of history, policy, and culture. The Institute鈥檚 2025 agenda is the result of a monthslong engagement with stakeholders, including AIP鈥檚 10 Member Societies, and throughout the year, AIP鈥檚 expert social scientists, historians, librarians, policy analysts, and archivists will work on projects to identify issues where social science, policy analysis, and historical research could provide useful context as the physical sciences community seeks to engage in positive change in how our science is done and by whom.

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Using state-of-the-art, high resolution micro-CT scanning, FAU researchers have scanned a full skeleton of a very rare vaquita specimen from the 1960s. The objective of scanning this rare specimen for display purposes is to facilitate the creation of replicas to be commercially available to further education and conservation efforts of this critically endangered species. The completed scans, which required approximately 165 hours, resulted in a total of three terabytes of data.

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Researchers have discovered what may be the world鈥檚 oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris Basin.

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The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick stands within Lenapehoking, the historical territory of the Lenni-Lenape people.

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If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer birdsong and the colors of fall foliage, you have the stabilization of the ozone layer to thank for it. Located in the stratosphere where it shields the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation, the ozone layer plays a key role in preserving the planet鈥檚 biodiversity.

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A new study from the University of Adelaide and The Australian National University (ANU) has outlined the first genomic evidence of early migration from New Guinea into the Wallacea, an archipelago containing Timor-Leste and hundreds of inhabited eastern Indonesian islands.

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A newly described dinosaur whose fossils were uncovered by University of Wisconsin鈥揗adison paleontologists is challenging the existing narrative, with evidence that the reptiles were present in the northern hemisphere millions of years earlier than previously known.

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Cornell Associate Professor of Mathematics Fabi脿n Candelaria used mathematics to study a fragment of a colonial canoe that floated ashore on the west coast of Puerto Rico after sitting underwater for hundreds of years.

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University of Illinois professor of African American studies and history Erik S. McDuffie examines the influence of political activist Marcus Garvey and the importance of the Midwest in the growth of Black internationalism and radicalism in his new book, 鈥淭he Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the U.S. Heartland and Global Black Freedom.鈥�

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Street art takes many forms, and the vibrant murals on the Berlin Wall both before and after its fall are expressions of people鈥檚 opinions. But there was often secrecy around the processes for creating the paintings, which makes them hard to preserve. Now, researchers reporting in the Journal of the American Chemical Society have uncovered information about this historic site from paint chips by combining a handheld detector and artificial intelligence (AI) data analysis.

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A new study exploring traditional sunken groundwater-harvesting agroecosystems in coastal and inland sand (SGHAS) bodies of Israel, Iran, Egypt, Algeria, Gaza, and the Atlantic coast of Iberia offers fresh perspectives on ancient agricultural techniques that could inform modern sustainability practices. The research, which combines geospatial analysis, archaeological findings, and historical documentation, sheds light on the innovative use of water-harvesting and soil-enrichment technologies developed in the early Islamic period and their continued relevance to contemporary agricultural challenges.