Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...

The whole semantic field of 'tool' and 'instrument' is fraught with negative moral connotations. St. Ignatius’ writings , however, show a different tendency. There, 'instrument' both serves as a ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

A recent study from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions.

Researchers Unearth 10,600-Yr-Old Spirit Cave Mummy’, Reveal Modern Humans Came to America Earlier Than Thought The genome ...

New work offers insight into how early life adapted from a low-oxygen atmosphere to the one that exists today.

How life evolved is one of the central questions in science and has fascinated humans for centuries. Early Earth was undoubtedly a harsh environment, but we know surprisingly little about the ...

A five-year excavation at the Mapu Tsho site in Xigaze City, Tibet, conducted between 2020 and 2024, revealed significant evidence of early human life. The Xizang Cultural Relics Protection Institute ...

For years, researchers believed that the world's oldest ochre mine, Ngwenya in Eswatini, was the only source of ochre pigment for early human communities. However, a groundbreaking new study published ...

Here are 20 facts about early human life. Almost 14,400 years ago, the early humans were snacking on food that doesn’t look all that much different from what we eat today. In northern Jordan, ...

Researchers have been exploring Iraq's Western Desert to decode its geomorphological history and search for traces of early human life. They say that the Al-Shabakah region holds incredible potential ...