Did you know that evidence of early human presence in the Philippines dates back an astounding 700,000 years? In 2018, ...

Over 41,000 years ago, Aboriginal Tasmanians utilized fire to transform dense forests into open landscapes, revealing land ...

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there ...

Tara Javidi is the co-principal investigator at The Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale (TILOS), a founding ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells Host Carolyn Beeler about Suyanggae, South Korea, an archaeological zone with ...

A new study has revealed that the shape of the heart is influenced in part by genetics and may help predict the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

Trace Neuroscience, which launched this week with $101 million, benefited from last year’s approval of Qalsody. Its CEO spoke ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...