The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool making, this year has given us a clearer picture of how and why humans evolved ...

Archaeologists in Britain have uncovered new evidence which suggests humankind's ability to master fire is some 350,000 years ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

In December 2025, the independent journalist and YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a video in which he claimed that daycare ...

Neanderthals were the world's first innovators of fire technology, tiny specks of evidence in England suggest. Flecks of pyrite found at a more than 400,000-year-old archaeological site in Suffolk, in ...

James indictment: A grand jury declined to reindict Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, rejecting efforts to revive a criminal case that had been sought by President Trump, according to people ...

Last year’s chemistry Nobel prize was awarded to researchers using AI to study proteins in entirely new ways, and in 2025 ...

Signal leak: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked endangering American troops by using an unsecured messaging app to discuss U.S. airstrikes in Yemen, the Pentagon’s acting inspector general ...

Hicks will lead one of the largest U.S. archdioceses as it navigates relations with the Trump administration and its ...

Dickens’s Christmas novella is often read as a reassuring parable about our ability to change — but the whole point of Scrooge’s ghostly visitations is how dramatically his moral life needs to be ...

George Clooney and Amal Clooney first met met at his Lake Como home in 2013, they would later go on to get married, have ...