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

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward ...

This week, Congress has advanced the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) toward becoming law.

Thus, the Torah tells the Jewish umma, and the Qur’an tells the Muslim umma, the importance of picking yourself up and going (Hajj in Arabic, Hag in Hebrew) with masses of other members of your umma, ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...

Advent, from the Latin adventus, meaning “arrival,” is a four-week season practiced across many Christian traditions as a time of reflection and preparation leading up to Christmas. Emerging as early ...