Early hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

The oldest physical boat is a canoe from roughly 10,000 years ago, but evidence suggests humans have been using watercraft ...

On the sheer limestone face of the Rock of Gibraltar, a hidden chamber has been sealed off from the outside world for roughly 40,000 years. When archaeologists finally broke through the sand and rock ...

“Burns are a uniquely human injury. No other species lives alongside high temperatures and the regular risk of burning in the way humans do,” study co-author Joshua Cuddihy of Imperial’s Department of ...

Humans have the potential to achieve a higher consciousness, but are prevented by psychological conditioning, and a leap of ...

Prolific author Bill Bryson thought he was finished. The universe had other plans.

For years, the oldest widely accepted cave art came from Spain, where mineral crusts dated paintings to more than 64,000 years. That work also relied on uranium decay in crusts, so it offered a ...

If true, this would make The Prince fossil the oldest known example of a modern human killed by a wild animal, and possibly ...

Excavations at the Husta Bronze Age site in Wenquan county, Xinjiang, revealed one of the region's earliest Bronze Age ...

That is why in the pro-life movement we oppose the murder — we consider it murder — of preborn children: for the same reasons ...

From building resilience to boosting artistic creativity, there are unexpected benefits to being rebuffed ...