Human DNA was indeed first discovered in the 1860s, marking a significant milestone in our understanding of human life. Since then, scientists have made numerous discoveries that shed light on early ...

The Federal Aviation Authority will launch an investigation after a Delta Air Lines plane’s wing clipped the runway in a botched landing attempt at New York-LaGuardia airport. The pilot had been ...

The discovery of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady, some of the most significant remains ever found in Australia, helped to re-write the history of this country and its First Peoples. But how they, and the ...

March 18 - A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday affirmed that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence without human input cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law.

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and ...

Gresik. The discovery of two human skeletons inside a long-abandoned car at a police dormitory in Gresik, East Java, has sparked an extensive investigation. Authorities are working to identify the ...

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The bones were found at Brookside Close, a residential cul-de-sac in Ancaster The remains of a human skeleton found at a property in Lincolnshire are believed to be centuries old, police said.

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...

Decades after its initial discovery, the skeleton of a prehistoric child who possessed both human and Neanderthal attributes has now been directly dated. Archaeologists have confirmed that the ...

Scientists used fragments of the child's right forearm bone to date the skeletal remains. Cidália Duarte In 1998, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a child in Portugal’s Lapedo ...