Archaeologists at UC Santa Cruz used predictive modeling to map strontium isotope ratios across all of modern-day Angola, a region in Southwest Africa that was once a major hub for the transatlantic ...

A team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz recently released a sophisticated new map that reveals, for the first time, the unique “geologic fingerprints” for most of the African continent. The map ...

Panjab University’s J S Sehrawat is now Fellow of American Academy of Forensic Sciences, after a decade-long work on bodies ...

Tracing the regional origin of everything from milk to invasive bugs is now possible thanks to a University of Otago project. A strontium isotope map developed by PhD Candidate Robyn Kramer, and ...

Scientists have mapped the distribution of different forms of the chemical element strontium in Africa, and showed how it can be used to trace artifacts and remains of plants, animals, and humans back ...

A Navy official recently told the community that it considers recent retesting data reflecting elevated levels of the radioactive isotope Strontium-90 on the development site of the old Hunters Point ...

Tracing the regional origin of everything from milk to invasive bugs is now possible thanks to a new project. A strontium isotope map means biological material can be pinpointed to distinct ...

Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant's teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. Geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or tusks reveal where ...

In South Carolina, members of the local Black community are teaming up with scientists to produce a novel study of the trans-Atlantic slave trade Sunlight illuminates a plaque in Charleston, South ...

Vikings brought horses and dogs to the British Isles from Scandinavia, a new study suggests. A chemical analysis of bone fragments from a cemetery in England provides the first solid scientific ...