More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

Scientists in China have unearthed a new human species with remarkable physical characteristics. The remains of 16 ...

Money is a purely psychological construct with one key underlying variable: trust. As historian Yuval Noah Harari says in his ...

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Scientists have shown that women don’t actually gossip more than men but that they do so in a much more thought-out manner.

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

Books can transport us across time, space, and even into the depths of the human soul. They inspire, challenge, and teach us in ways that stay with us forever. If you’re curating a reading list for a ...

By Rohan Gupta Dr. Rajan Thapaliya is a distinguished professor with expertise in data and computer science. Beyond his ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...