Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA ...

The history of humanity is an intricate tapestry, whose threads not only belong to our own species but intertwine with those ...

Biochemical evidence suggests Norse people settled in Iceland almost 70 years before the accepted arrival date of the 870s, ...