Tech is evolving too fast for human biology. Mental health trends show we're struggling. To survive, we must speed up ...

The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Steven Pinker’s book recommendations cover science, psychology, and philosophy, providing thought-provoking insights that ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about our ancient past: modern humans didn’t come from just one ancestral group, ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

We've long assumed our species evolved from a tidy, single stream of ancestors. But life on Earth is never quite so straightforward, especially not when it comes to the most socially complex species ...

More information: Jordan Palli et al, The human-driven ecological success of olive trees over the last 3700 years in the Central Mediterranean, Quaternary Science Reviews (2025).

New discoveries made in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania by an international team led by Ignacio de la Torre, CSIC-Spanish National Research Council, push back the archaeological record of bone-tool ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis ...

Controlling nature by bulldozing dirt and pouring concrete has long been the guiding vision of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. For 250 years that ethos inspired both awe and disgust. “In my ...