Australopithecus is not a single branch of the human family tree, a point its own field has long recognised, so why does a new paper argue…
Aug 25, 2026
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Sixteen mummified people and a mummified canid accumulated in a single Egyptian side chamber just over five metres long over at least three…
Aug 24, 2026
China's population peaked at about 1.41 billion in 2021 and the UN projects it will fall to about 633 million by 2100
Aug 22, 2026
Canopy-penetrating laser scans along 4,430 kilometres of flight lines over Acre and Amazonas found 432 earthworks where only 36 had been…
Aug 21, 2026
In a cave in southern Italy in 1963, archaeologists found two skeletons buried in an embrace 12,000 years earlier, one of them long assumed…
Aug 18, 2026
In 1984, peat cutters in Cheshire hit something rubbery with a mechanical shovel and pulled up a man who had been strangled, struck on the…
Aug 14, 2026
A Yale study found that people who searched the internet for an explanation felt smarter afterward
Aug 12, 2026
You can sit shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of strangers for eleven hours straight and breathe air that is, by most measures, cleaner…
By Kiran Journals · Aug 7, 2026
Being single is becoming the norm rather than a phase
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 4, 2026
Cut marks on adult bone show the cannibalism at Gran Dolina 850,000 years ago was not limited to children and adolescents, and 24 new Homo…
Jul 29, 2026
OECD projects global aid to fall 6.9% in 2026 as health funding drops
Jul 23, 2026
How did hunter-gatherers in southeastern Anatolia quarry, carve, and raise 20-tonne T-shaped limestone pillars into ringed enclosures…
Jul 23, 2026