“The humanoid space has a very, very big hill to climb,” said Cosima du Pasquier, founder and CEO of Haptica Robotics, which ...

The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.

You think you know Stonehenge. The iconic rock towers standing against a green field and a gray English sky are one of the ...

Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was a lush and fertile landscape, home to thriving communities. A new study ...

Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.