Evidence from caves in France and Spain shows Neanderthals made symbolic art long before Homo sapiens, reshaping ideas about ...

I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...

The journey begins on the idyllic Caribbean Island of Isla Mujeres and challenges teams to race 5,900km to reach the finish ...

Native American historian Ned Blackhawk joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultures and ...

Exploring how ancient Greek mythology continues to serve as a psychological map for healing, transformation, and the ...

Russia has been threatening Pokrovsk for more than a year. Instead of the full frontal assaults it used in earlier battles ...

Don’t Miss The five-mile Macleay Park Trail to Pittock Mansion, the park’s most popular trail. It has everything, including ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

Cameroon voted in an election Sunday that could see Africa’s oldest leader – the world’s oldest president – extend his rule by another seven years. Analysts have predicted a victory for President Paul ...

On Sunday, October 5, the world’s oldest man celebrated his 113th birthday. Born in 1912 in Maranguape – a municipality in the Brazilian state of Ceará – João Marinho Neto is officially the last ...