Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the ...

Before this discovery in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, in which CENIEH participated, researchers believed that hominins only ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

Early humans began crafting stone tools more than 3 million years ago by chipping off flakes to form shapes and sharp edges ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest ...

Could aspirin keep cancer from spreading? A new study from the University of Cambridge suggests that the common pain medication could have this surprise benefit. Experts weigh in.

Alice Stebbins Wells patrolled dance halls, skating rinks, penny arcades and movie theaters, keeping these public spaces free ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered 100,000-year-old burials in a cave, revealing early human rituals and symbolic ...

The animate-inanimate category distinction is one of the general organizing principles in the primate high-level visual cortex. Much less is known about the visual cortical representations of animacy ...