Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...

Facing its worst drought in decades, Iran is attempting to stimulate rain by spreading seeding agents in clouds, but the ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric ...

A comprehensive UN report has found that cities and towns are home to 81 per cent of the world’s population, much more than ...

AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians do research at a scale that was previously ...

Taken from the book Lo-TEK Water, these shots by designer Julia Watson explore how traditional ecological knowledge is being ...

Benjamin Taub is a science journalist who covers areas including anthropology, consciousness and psychedelics. He holds an ...

The discovery that fat is a communicative organ with a role in everything from bone health to mood is forcing a rethink of ...

Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers ...

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an ...