History helps us make sense of the here and now by providing context and perspective. And sometimes history provides us with ...

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change ...

One of the most pernicious legacies of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao is that any political leader responsible for less than, say, ...

Human ancestors faced an unexpected shrinkage in population due to various events, one that even threatened the survival of ...

The fossils and tools found in Morocco therefore send an important reminder about our understanding of the human journey, he says: “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” The ...

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is poised to become the first Indian astronaut to journey to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of Axiom Mi ...

New research raises the possibility that recent human history involved far more dynamic evolution than previously thought. In Darwinian biology, the classic conception of natural selection is a ...

For the first time, we have a method for extracting proteins from preserved soft tissues like brains – which could be a ...

Today, with access to heretofore unprecedented data sets for the study of human genetic variation, researchers can exploit the genetic signatures of natural selection using novel analytical methods.

It has announced 11 titles from its usual dozen, including Ondřej Provaznik’s Sbormistr (Broken Voices) and Hungarian ...

At the same time, the history of the relationship between humans and cyborgs ... and part of the digestive system remained of the human body. The idea was to use the human brain to make the machine’s ...