Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Painstaking analysis of discoveries at a prehistoric site in Suffolk shows humans started making fire hundreds of thousands ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

A new report said the first astronauts on Mars should have focused on searching for signs of life. It outlined mission goals, research plans, and guidance for future human exploration ...

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Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists ...

An ancient asteroid older than Earth itself has reignited debate over whether life began in space. NASA's Bennu discovery ...

A new study suggests that the people who reach the pinnacle of their fields typically dabbled in multiple disciplines when ...

From domestication to art, here’s a look at 14 fascinating things humans were up to 10,000 years ago. The domestication of ...