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

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

As schools and universities take varying stances on AI, some teachers believe the tech can democratize tutoring. Here's how - and where the drawbacks lie.

Winning the best animated feature in 2024, this dialogue-free film from Latvia follows a black cat and her various animal ...

Experts told Newsweek the books that are best for nurturing the virtues of kindness, courage and respect in boys.

Since November, employees of the Office of Refugee Resettlement say that the program has stopped reuniting immigrant kids and ...

An Iowa Medicaid plan would cut daily therapy reimbursement to 15 minutes, raising concerns from parents and providers about ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

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

Newly uncovered fossils have helped researchers determine that an unusual 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot discovered in 2009 does not belong to Lucy’s species. Instead, the evidence now indicates ...