Blue Origin will launch the NS-37 mission on Dec. 18 with the first wheelchair user to reach space, along with five other passengers on the New Shepard suborbital flight ...

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

Trump wants Bagram back. Satellite images show how the Taliban are using it. Stephen Colbert wonders why 'The Late Show' was ...

People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the classic adage of "survival of the ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have mastered the art of making fire far earlier than previously believed and ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

Hidden inside the narrow growth rings of Pyrenees trees lies the strongest evidence yet for what set the Black Death in ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Scientists in Britain say new evidence suggests ancient humans may have mastered the art of making fire far earlier than ...