The distinctive smell of ancient mummies is helping scientists decode the secrets of Egyptian mummification. By analyzing tiny traces of chemicals in the air around mummy samples, researchers ...

Neighborhood walkability is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: Does living in a walkable city make you walk more, or do active people choose to live where it’s easier to walk? To investigate, ...

TAMPA, Fla. — For the first time this school year, the state offered the new Step Up for Students scholarships. One of them is specifically for families who choose to homeschool. It provides access to ...

This photo shows a mummy of a middle-aged man from over 9,000 years ago found at an archaeological site in southern China. (Photo courtesy of the international research team on smoke-dried ...

Increasing your daily step count is more important for weight loss than the exact number of steps. Your body weight, effort, and pace affect how many calories you burn from walking. Adding intensity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The remains of one of the four children found by archeologists, buried in the Inca sanctuary of Pachacamac, in the coastal desert ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Wanyue Zhao and her colleagues used volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to analyze the composition of scents given off by mummies ...

Two naturally mummified individuals buried roughly 7,000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have yielded ancient genomes that reveal a previously unknown, long-isolated North African lineage. The ...