A team of researchers from Griffith University have unearthed a complex technological device in central China that has ...

Crystals have repeatedly been found at archaeological sites alongside Homo remains. Evidence shows that hominins have been collecting these stones for as long as 780,000 years. Yet, we know that our ...

Neanderthal men were short, stocky and powerful - and our female ancestors appeared to fancy them, according to a new study. (Image is AI-generated).

Mental shortcuts used to interpret helping situations can cause well-meaning sighted people to assume they know more about the capabilities of blind people than they actually do.

As AI begins to transform education, work, and social life, we need to focus on developing and expanding capacities essential for human flourishing.

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group—including those that transmit ...

Houchin and his colleagues studied dozens of zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These are the oldest ...

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

In a paper published in PNAS, they reveal not only that these ancient carvings were applied in an intentional, systematic ...