It's no secret that humans are the Earth's most dominant species. And, without proof of life anywhere else in the Universe, we can probably consider ourselves the most dominant species in space too.

Your brain might have a hidden neural layer that puts you in touch with the same “figures” during altered states of ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Archaeologists excavating at Tadım Fortress and Höyük in eastern Turkey have unearthed a remarkable stone seal dating back 7,500 years, pushing evidence of organized settlement in the Elazig region ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

The history of human evolution can continue to give us unique findings that completely change what we already know. In this ...

That same gift of creation, once a symbol of our uniqueness, has now brought us into a new age of invention unlike any before ...

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

Across archaeology and earth science, new discoveries are stacking up and they do not fit the clean textbook timeline of slow human progress. Evidence points to sudden cataclysms, lost knowledge, and ...

Astronauts of the future may be radically different from the rest of us in physiology and psychology. So, to what extent ...

French Catholic bishops have issued a public statement urging lawmakers to reject a proposed law that would legalize ...

Global humanitarianism is in crisis. The movement that grew up after the Holocaust, drew strength from the cold war and fed ...