The dream of traversing the depths of space and planting the seed of human civilization on another planet has existed for generations.

The two figures are personifications of Humanity and Love. Humanity, on the right side of the picture, has his hands on a set of oars but lies back unmoving, as if passed out from exhaustion. Love, ...

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Fossil teeth challenge the idea that large brains drove extended childhood, suggesting cultural transmission shaped human evolution.

While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational technology ...

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Donald Trump has awarded the lawyer who won him immunity one of the most powerful roles in the nation’s justice system.

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

Among extant genes known to have originated among Denisovans are sequences common in Tibetan populations that help the body ...