A new study uncovers a subtle but powerful factor that may have tipped the balance between Neanderthals and early humans.

A landmark DNA study rewrites human history in South America, showing at least three distinct ancestries shaped the region's ...

Roughly nine out of every 10 time capsules go missing, according to Paul Hudson, a retired Georgia State University history ...

Oscar-nominated director explores a real-time ecological collapse caused by a behavioral pattern of sexual violence by male ...

New genetic results reveal a previously unknown wave of people settled in South America 1,300 years ago and that Indigenous ...

Since 1968, world population has soared from 3.5 billion to over 8 billion, life expectancy at birth has increased from 56 ...

After a four-day visit to Mexico, UN human rights chief Volker Türk urged tougher action on disappearances and impunity.

The population of the world’s last mountain gorillas has rebounded by 73% since 1989, allowing the subspecies to be ...

A female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquito takes a blood meal from a host. For millennia, this mosquito has spread malaria.

More than 17 million people along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at the highest risk of being affected by flooding, ...

On Jan 5, 2026, the Acting Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) signed a decision memorandum from the heads of the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for ...