Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien ...

More than 60,000 years ago, the first humans reached Australia, navigating dangerous waters and unfamiliar landscapes. Their ...

The death of Ayatollah Khamenei should have been a moment of moral clarity. After four decades of theocratic rule, a regime that funded Hamas and Hezbollah, called for death to America and Israel, ...

Published in 1889, The Gospel of Wealth is considered the founding document of modern philanthropy. Written at the height of wealth inequality during the Gilded A ...

Not only was Star Trek: The Next Generation an iconic series for television, it also featured sci-fi quotes that have stood the test of time.

If you’ve ever wondered what the apocalypse might look like with a Southern accent, Henry River Mill Village near Hickory has some answers for you. This abandoned textile mill village looks so ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

A bowl of cereal looks simple, but it’s the end of a long chain of choices that changed human life more than almost any invention. Farming didn’t just put food on the table. It reshaped where people ...

A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two legs before any known African hominin, but the evidence is far from conclusive ...

A study combining the growing number of ancient genomes from living people has given us our best picture yet of how humans have evolved over the past 10,000 years or so. It shows that people in ...

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...