ROME, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Italy has bought Antonello da Messina's "Ecce Homo" for $14.9 million, securing the rare work by the ...

This article offers a trenchant analysis of the economics of politics as practised in our clime using ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African ...

“As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe ...

The Tomorrow People trades superhero spectacle for mutant protagonists with paranoia, betrayal, and grey morality.

Time will no longer be imposed upon us by a cesium fountain clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology,” says experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats, who is leading the initiative in ...

Buried deep within a limestone cave in northern Greece, the Petralona skull has stumped scientists for decades. Found embedded in rock and encased in mineral deposits, it doesn’t fit neatly into the ...

A team of researchers working in a Moroccan cave system has recovered early hominin fossils dated to roughly 773,000 years ago, and the bones carry physical traits that place them near the base of the ...

“The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from direct selection on other parts of the skull,” University of Buffalo biological ...

Ghost lineages reveal themselves through ancient genes that still exist in living beings today.

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...