Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, ...

CNN’s Jake Tapper gave a blunt assessment of President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang ...

Prominent Iranian political activist, Kianoosh Sanjari, who took his own life on Wednesday in an act of protest, was buried ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the ...

Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally long childhood, during which parents, grandparents and other adults contribute to their physical and cognitive development. This is a key ...

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

Delaware state legislator Sarah McBride won her momentous bid for the U.S. House this week, declaring, “Our democracy is big ...

It took longer than expected, but about 18 hours after the polls closed, the full election results from Story County were finally posted to the Iowa Secretary of State’s website, confirming that ...

Residents of Michigan, a key 2024 swing state, have a final chance to cast a vote for U.S. president and other key races. Get ...