Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

OpenAI faces scrutiny after suicides linked to ChatGPT; advocates warn bots shouldn’t mimic therapists without safeguards.

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

She’s the subject of the most-recited prayer in the world, but Mary also might be one of the least-known women in history, biblical scholar James D. Tabor argues in his latest book, “ The Lost Mary: ...

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Turkey, uncovering a lost land bridge that could significantly alter our understanding of human migration and European history. This remarkable ...

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

Renaud Joannes-Boyau receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Manish Arora receives funding from US National Institutes of Health. He is the founder of Linus Biotechnology, a start-up ...

Kada Scott, who was last seen on Oct. 4, remains missing, according to police. A suspect has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a 23-year-old nursing assistant in Philadelphia who ...

Just over 500 years ago, on 3 August 1492, Christopher Columbus, the admiral from Genoa underwritten by Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain, set off on the first of 4 trips across the Atlantic. He ...

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 ...

I’m lost. My car’s GPS system said to turn left and within a minute I’m wandering through a neighborhood on one end or the other of Johnstown. Yay, modern conveniences. I stumble across the downtown ...