An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

A comprehensive UN report has found that cities and towns are home to 81 per cent of the world’s population, much more than ...

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric ...

Benjamin Taub is a science journalist who covers areas including anthropology, consciousness and psychedelics. He holds an ...

AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians do research at a scale that was previously ...

Taken from the book Lo-TEK Water, these shots by designer Julia Watson explore how traditional ecological knowledge is being ...

Facing its worst drought in decades, Iran is attempting to stimulate rain by spreading seeding agents in clouds, but the ...

A major settlement in Central Asia called Semiyarka dating back to 1600 BC had houses, a big central building and even an ...

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an ...

A 12,000-year-old clay sculpture found in Israel depicts a goose on the back of a woman, and archaeologists suggest it may be ...

Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers ...