There is no escaping so-called 'forever chemicals', a set of long-lasting and harmful man-made substances that infuse almost ...

After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

Klepper turned to an ABC World News Tonight report on the Pentagon’s removal and swift restoration of a story on baseball ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

A small minority that produces this technology and collects all human data treats humanity as "experimental subjects." In ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...