Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

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At the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, a surprising array of living animals make their homes among the famous dead.

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

Socialism has a well-earned reputation as a secular, rational movement. But not all socialists throughout history were quite ...

Google and Amazon reportedly agreed to Israeli government demands to implement a secret messaging system to obfuscate court ...

When Dan Brown finally returned in 2025 with The Secret of Secrets—the sixth Robert Langdon adventure—the world that devoured ...

In a recent study, Dr. Oszkár Schütz and his colleagues analyzed 156 ancient genomes from the Sarmatian period, spanning the 1st to 5th centuries CE. The aim of the study was to clarify the origins ...

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Summer McKesson struggled to breathe for years. Doctors told her it was because her blood would not stop clotting – and they ...