But the next time you squash one of these bloodsuckers, consider this: you are participating in a bitter rivalry that goes back to the time of Homo erectus. It turns out that mosquitoes have been ...

Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...

Two fossil skulls discovered in Yunxian, northern China, are now dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, making them ...

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New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

New research dates Homo erectus skulls in China to nearly 1.8 million years ago, making them the oldest hominin fossils in East Asia.

A human skull hung on a cave wall in northern Greece for more than 300,000 years. When a villager spotted it in 1960, ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke Feb. 2, 2026, at Blue Origin's rocket factory in Florida, alongside the company's founder Jeff Bezos. Credit: DoW livestream WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete ...

Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos, is suspending the short flights of its suborbital New Shepard spacecraft, which took paying customers to the edge of space and back.

WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The space tourism rocket that blasted celebrities like Katy Perry and William Shatner to space is shuttering operations, at least for two years, Blue Origin said on ...

Blue Origin has “paused” its New Shepard program for the next two years, a move that likely signals a permanent end to the suborbital space tourism initiative. The small rocket and capsule have been ...