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

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

Influence, leverage and quiet control surface through books that decode how money moves power, shapes systems and decides who ...

Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that redraws the map of the ancient world. His DNA captures a moment when people from ...

Newly uncovered fossils have helped researchers determine that an unusual 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot discovered in 2009 does not belong to Lucy’s species. Instead, the evidence now indicates ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

The Woodland Trail at Sand Hills State Park in Kansas is practically a local secret. Visitors often overlook this gem in favor of the more exposed dune and prairie hikes. The One Thing to Do in Kansas ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Researchers deciphered genetic data to discover two distinct settler groups dispersed into what is now New Guinea and Australia. The data supports the “long chronology” view that modern humans arrived ...

Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robots still need plenty of help from a human teleoperator who’s hidden from view. During a flashy event on a Hollywood movie studio lot in October 2024, for instance, an army ...