They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Within these classic games are brilliant design choices, tucked away behind hidden game mechanics, that bring the entire ...

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

Clear out your shelves for a bumper new crop of books by authors including Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Xand Van Tulleken, ...

What does 'Pluribus' mean? Vince Gilligan's title explained and why it took two years to find the perfect name for Apple TV's ...

"Star Trek" is home to countless alien species, many of whom offer beloved characters. Some are not. We rank the 10 most ...

Mammals keep evolving into anteaters, eating only ants and termites, at least 12 times since the age the dinosaurs.

Over the last century of cinematic sci-fi, movies like Planet of the Apes and The Thing have produced some of the most ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Discover when globalization began, from ancient trade routes to modern economic policies, and understand its impact on global trade and cultural exchange.

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than once believed.