Scientists believe they’ve found evidence that life on Earth is over a billion years older than anyone believed was realistic. New research used machine learning to scan ancient meteorites and fossils ...

(CNN) — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

Yunxian 1 (left) and Yunxian 2 (right) are skulls unearthed in China that had been badly crushed. Scientists digitally reconstructed Yunxian 2 (center) and analyzed its relationship to other early ...

Radiocarbon dating is quietly rewriting one of humanity’s best known origin stories, shifting the rise of Egypt’s first ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

At head of title: DK Smithsonian. "The ultimate visual guide to the discoveries that shaped the world"--Cover. Before science began (2.5 MYA -- 799 C.E.) : Early metallurgy ; The story of the wheel ; ...

What if the end of the world isn’t really in our hands? That is the question that hangs in the air as some of Oxford and Cambridge’s best brains give bleak assessments of humanity’s future. Toby Ord, ...