About 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy have been released, including ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

The Trump administration released over 10,000 files related to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. In line with President Donald Trump’s signing of Executive Order 14176, Declassification of Recor ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

The production of tailored clothing and the use of ochre as a sunscreen may have given Homo sapiens an advantage over ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use of ochre and tailored clothing during a period of increased UV light 41,000 years ago, during the Laschamps excursion.

For millennia, humans lived as hunter-gatherers. Savannas and forests are often thought of as the cradle of our lineage, but ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A 3-year-old girl from the western state of Durango is Mexico’s first confirmed human case of bird flu, health officials said Friday. Type A H5N1 influenza has been ...