An environmental journalist and child of Caroline Kennedy, she recently wrote of her battle with leukemia in The New Yorker, ...

The first humans didn’t walk into cities or civilizations—they faced shifting climates, fierce predators, and raw survival. This is the world our earliest ancestors called home.

Today, if one were to ask to ask about an “elf” or “elves” there are probably two answers that would come back. One would certainly be the cheerful and hardworking crew of Santa Claus at his toy ...

Starting a fire led to advancements such as cooking, which unlocked nutrients that improved the size and cognition of the ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

The scale of the bycatch slaughter is a key factor in helping build global support for BBNJ. Another hugely harmful practice ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual ...

The sound of a choir performing in a cathedral is iconic for a reason. It’s this beautiful human experience: being side-by-side with other people, feeling the sound vibrate through you, reverberating ...

Today privacy is not secrecy but selfhood. It remains an ethical space between what we owe others and what we owe ourselves.

Perhaps also surprising, the remains of cats and artistic depictions of them have been observed in various archaeological ...