These three connected stories about the whole of human history can’t quite sustain the necessary emotional heft.

“The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from direct selection on other parts of the skull,” University of Buffalo biological ...

The director of Finding Nemo, Toy Story 5, and WALL-E defends optimism and human connection with In the Blink of an Eye, on ...

It’s enormously satisfying that a film about a crazed prophecy sent back to us from humankind’s nightmarish future should itself look, sound and behave so much like one. Watch out, because into the ...

For a long time, imagination was considered a human endeavor. When we’re children, we invent invisible friends and turn ...

Werner Herzog speaks to FandomWire about his new documentary, GHOST ELEPHANTS. Jon Bois seeks the largest elephants in the world.

Over the years, with the approval of the folks at the Lewis Grizzard (L.G.) Museum in Moreland, Georgia and his surviving fourth wife (from Cleveland, Tennessee), I have liberally reported the ...

Daron Acemoglu, an economics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Nobel Prize winner, says: “If AI is ...

It will be registered as a ‘new species (New species)’ on Earth,” (Benjamin Rossman, a professor at the University of the ...

The prolific writer has returned with a sequel to his bestseller A Short History of Nearly Everything.

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia. It was thought that this probably happened in the eastern Mediterranean region, but ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic signature locked into the surrounding sediments. The hominin remains show a blend ...