The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

They once roamed free - until humans changed the course of evolution forever. This is the story of the moment wild animals became workers, food sources, and ...

As the lines become blurred between real and fake information, there is a growing possibility that such deepfakes could infect high-stakes national security decisions, including on nuclear weapons. If ...

New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

LONDON — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after ...

Indian scientists used an AI model to predict how bird flu (H5N1) could spread from birds to humans. The study shows that ...

“This is a tectonic shift,” says Hugo Malan, president of the science, engineering, technology and telecom reporting unit ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

The findings push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly 350,000 years. Until now, the oldest confirmed evidence had come from Neanderthal sites (northern France) dating to ...

There is a fresh debate on how human-like AI can be. This time the debate has been sparked by comments made by Google ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.