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

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

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 ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

A remarkable discovery of 476,000-year-old wooden logs at Kalambo Falls reveals that early humans were reshaping their ...

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 ...

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

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” That was Karl Marx, but it could as easily have ...

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

In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, researchers have unearthed a 476,000-year-old wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia, revealing that early ...

Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're ...