The 2026 spring season of the Frankfort Heritage Lecture series has been unveiled and contains a special lineup of capital ...

The new feature delivers 30-minute, single-voice audio lectures designed for passive learning, with a calm tone and a hint of ...

Maggie and astronaut Meganne Christian help a volunteer launch a hydrogen powered rocket.

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Important, previously unrecognized genetic changes common to all ancient and modern Homo sapiens spread in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, a new study finds. After that, the same investigation ...

The story of human evolution is not solely our own. Throughout our species’ developmental journey, countless animals have played crucial roles in shaping who we are today. From providing essential ...

Sometimes, dogs need a few boundaries. And sometimes, that requires a lecture. And while our lectures to our dogs are mostly in jest and funny, it sometimes feels like they understand everything we ...

The Conversation/Renaud Joannes-Boyau et al. When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes. But our new study, published in ...

For over three decades, the badly crushed and distorted Yunxian 2 skull remained an enigma, its true significance hidden beneath layers of geological damage. The breakthrough came when researchers led ...

Share on Pinterest Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy A new study concludes that the speed at which the ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...