For decades, psychologists have thought of creativity as a key trait that would set us apart from machines, even as they ...

Neanderthals may have been less primitive and more engaged in cultural practices, similar to those of early humans, than ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

Even in the modern high tech world, nature still manages to terrify and confuse scientists. From glowing oceans and eerie sky lights to rivers that boil and sounds that have no source, these natural ...

Dag Hessen views these resilient animals as wilderness in animal form, representing all that's lost to us in a world being steadily reduced to a tame vestige of its former self.

The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was “fully-shaped into a crayon-like tool with a pointed morphology”, with ...