The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

According to a groundbreaking discovery in a field in Suffolk, humans had mastered the art of creating fire 400,000 years ago ...

After more than 50 years of research, scientists still don't know exactly what causes autism. But the data make clear that ...

According to Ding, “Ancient people had superb abilities in navigating nature. With an understanding of currents, wind, stars, ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

A major new study has revealed that a group of people in southern Africa lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands ...