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Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans gathered along the shores of a lush lake in what is now northern Israel. Here, they ...

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Publishers risk unwittingly putting out books generated with artificial-intelligence tools. Authors and readers are ...

I don't pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times, and began again in the morning,” the poet Nayyirah ...

From lava tubes on Mars to ice pockets on Europa, subterranean environments may offer the best chance of finding life—and living safely—beyond our planet. “I was like, ‘OK, I'm pretty sure that ...

The subject of UFOs and aliens is vast and complex, making it impossible to summarize in one article. Flying saucers/UFOs made headline news throughout the world in 1947, sparked by two major, highly ...

What would they think of us? Today in History: April 12, Euro Disney opens in Paris Artemis II’s moon-traveling astronauts ...