Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

A newly identified Paleolithic culture in northern China reveals unique stone tools and early ochre processing dating back ...

Halafian culture arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, displaying one of the earliest ...

The earliest known wooden construction in the world was found at Kalambo Falls in northern Zambia. This amazing structure has been dated by the archaeologists to about 476,000 years ago, and is ...

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

And it’s truly black.” A hidden artery running through East Asia, the Kuro­shio has shaped life along its path for millennia.

Complex geodynamic forces along the Eurasian and African faults are slowly tumbling the Iberian Peninsula toward the ...

Opinion Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are trumped by accountancy's First Law of Finance: you must make money. iRobot, the ...

“Focus on twavel, welationships and twacking down dat waskily wabbit.” – Elmer Fudd reading his horoscope. I have decided to bone up on how the study of planetary cycles guide us towards a more ...

In a groundbreaking discovery that could reshape our understanding of ancient human technology, archaeologists have unearthed a wooden structure dating back ...

The biological human son of Stephen Lang's Quaritch and the adopted member of the Sully family gains the ability to breathe ...