Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

The vast majority of our planet’s oceans remain unexplored, hiding secrets that challenge everything we thought we knew about ...

The Apple TV sci-fi series about the 1960s space race, For All Mankind, presents an alternate history where the Soviet Union ...

Over the past century, the region has attracted pioneering artists who strived for innovation, accessibility and diversity in ...

Two prehistoric genomes have revealed the history of HPV and challenged the idea that Neanderthals first transmitted the ...

Thiel was also one of the founders of Palantir ( PLTR ). Leveraging some of the early fraud detection systems of PayPal, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site is home to the oldest hominid fossils in Europe, and many studies have tried to sort through the fossils to ...

Scientists recently discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans — and it’s far older than scholars previously believed. The study, which was published in the ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

The skull had the brow of a descendant but the face of an ancestor. When researchers finished reconstructing the DAN5/P1 cranium from Ethiopia’s Afar region, dated to between 1.6 and 1.5 million years ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Suffolk, England, has pushed back the timeline for human-made fire by an astonishing 350,000 years. Researchers excavating at Barnham have uncovered ...