In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

From Kurzgesagt, an hour-long animated music video that shows all of human history in an hour. So here’s an experiment: e ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

He put a face to a God who was, before Jesus arrived, incorporeal, beyond human senses and human comprehension. In the words ...

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

Conservatives and liberals alike can agree that all people, and especially children, deserve ethical, evidence-based care.

International Human Solidarity Day is celebrated annually on 20 December to mark the core value of solidarity in ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Moments like this call us to teach not only information, but empathy, courage and humanity,” said Branham High School ...

Known as Le Grand Hiver (the Great Winter) in France, the Great Frost was a winter of unprecedented bitter cold across the European continent between 1708 and 1709. Lasting about three months, the ...

On December 23, 1888, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear with a razor after an altercation with his friend ...