Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds of millennia — preserving rare genetic variants that still exist today.

Researchers at National Taiwan University have uncovered, for the first time at atomic resolution, how the human proteasome ...

Smriti Dixit's latest solo show, Whispered Continuum, at Art Alive Gallery in New Delhi, is awash with these. Coiled ...

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Brief glitches in video calls may seem like no big deal, but new research shows they can have a negative effect on how a ...

Albert Einstein’s 1950 letter to Robert S. Marcus, written after the death of Marcus’s son, contains one of his most reflective statements on human interconnectedness. In it, he describes the belief ...

Will people continue to hike and bike the Arizona Trail? Extreme weather and land use challenges may test the limits.

Lyman Lake State Park in St. Johns, Arizona is exactly that kind of revelation – a 1,500-acre liquid miracle that makes you wonder if you’ve somehow teleported out of Arizona altogether. We all have ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Our body is home to trillions of microscopic organisms that, through reciprocal interaction with our brain, shape our mind.

It is not mysterious that such a book would find both publisher and audience in this particular moment. By almost every ...

In a wired world where every experience seems at our fingertips, two current photography exhibitions remind us of what we don ...