The research team identified chemical residues of poison from gifbol, a poisonous plant still used by traditional hunters in ...

A tiny bird figurine discovered in a refuse heap in the Henan province of China is changing what historians thought they knew ...

Brazil’s oldest people may be revealing hidden biological secrets behind extreme human longevity. A Viewpoint published on January 6 in Genomic Psychiatry by Dr. Mayana Zatz and colleagues at the Huma ...

Bregman and the Cubs agreed to a five-year, $175 million contract on Saturday, Jan. 10, according to a person with direct ...

Kellenberger, who spent 41 years teaching middle school in Carson City, Mich., said she’d dreamed of hiking the 14-state ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

A fascinating archaeological discovery in South Africa has revealed that humans were using sophisticated poisoned arrows 60,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented. Chemical analysis of ...

A Chilean scholar argues sovereignty must adapt to the realities of the digital age, balancing state autonomy with the ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

A team of scholars identified the oldest intentional human cremation, dramatically expanding what archaeologists know about early hunter-gatherer practices.

Brazilian research team investigates protective factors in extraordinary people who survived COVID-19 without vaccines and ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...