It may be a politically incorrect to say it, but desperate times require words commensurate with the existential threat of ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel literature laureate who challenged Peru's powerful military in the early 1960s, has died at 89 ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists ...

Of course, the non-penguin Homo sapiens here in the United States had better not get sick if the pause doesn’t become ...

The Homo sapiens living in the Upper Palaeolithic that were marked as Cro-Magnons are now referred to as either Anatomically Modern Humans or Early Modern Humans. On some occasions they are being ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

What do the band Green Day, the country of Iraq, and Capcom’s Devil May Cry action series all have in common? If you’re a ...

Astronomers are closely monitoring Asteroid 2024 YR4 amid concerns that it could collide with the Moon in 2032. While the asteroid is no longer considered a significant threat to Earth, new ...

War-torn helicopters from the Vietnam war are airlifting the creatures to safety. Zipping through the skies over South Africa, a 1,300kg (2,865lbs) horned herbivore is dangling by its feet from a ...