A 150,000-year-old site in Côte d'Ivoire nearly doubles previous estimates of how long ago humans first lived in rainforests.

A University of Texas at Austin-led team has reconstructed the most detailed map to date of the molecular machines that ...

New expert analysis says New Orleans must start relocating now to avoid chaos as the city faces rising sea levels that could ...

From that time onward, the everyday customs, cultural traditions, and urban planning insights born from such human activities have been refined and passed down through generations within this ancient ...

But that knowledge is now at risk. In many of our towns and cities, the stars are increasingly hidden behind a haze of artificial light. And that light pollution is threatening a ...

A joint team of Chinese and Indonesian scientists has used ancient genome data to reconstruct the genetic history of ...

Silla Exhibition Challenges Hermit Kingdom Myth in Europe Europes largest Silla exhibition with 333 artifacts challenges ...

Click into the map for a closer look. The province of Baetica in Spain was a hub for the production of olive oil, which was ...

There is an ancient human instinct to imagine the end of the world whenever the world begins to change too quickly.

Long-distance gene control first emerged around 650 to 700 million years ago, significantly earlier than scientists had ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands of years ago that have left a lasting imprint on our ...