In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

Uralic languages, which includes Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, are distinctly different from Indo-European languages that ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

A large-scale study tracing human disease history back 37,000 years has identified harmful bacteria, viruses and parasites ...

Researchers determined that a skull of a female child from Skhūl Cave in Israel shows both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ...

An excellent question but one that presumes that stars just go out at some point. That’s not true, however. The hydrogen fusion by which stars shine does end at some point, but that process can take ...

In 2013, the festival took its first international step with a session in Tokyo. By 2015, it had expanded to cities across Korea including Seoul, Daegu, Gwangju, and Busan. Over the years, with more ...

Ancient zoonotic diseases spiked 6,500 years ago due to farming and migration—reshaping human health and aiding future ...

The death of a Russian Cabinet minister in a field near his posh home in a Moscow suburb has fueled wild speculation about ...

While interhuman relationships go back to the early years of civilization, marriage has only become commonplace in the recent annals of history. Evidence suggests that marriage as an institution ...