At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

On January 7, 2025, the US Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture released the long-awaited 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site is home to the oldest hominid fossils in Europe, and many studies have tried to sort through the fossils to ...

2025 has been a year of reckoning for HR, marked by burnout, rapid tech acceleration, and growing pressure to rethink the employee experience as we head into 2026. Debbie Lawrence, chief people ...

In 1998, researchers discovered one of the most complete known human ancestral fossils in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves. Almost two decades later, Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who had ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

While few of us today know how to start a bonfire without matches or a lighter, learning to make fire was one of the most critical developments in human history. New evidence suggests humans figured ...

For the longest time, we thought we knew the origins of our species. We thought we began 200,000 years ago in East Africa. But new revelations from out here in Morocco, from a part of Africa that ...

On this date in 1995, the Hip Hop community lost one of its most beloved and innovative figures when Fat Boys legend Darren Robinson, known worldwide as the Human Beat Box, passed away from a heart ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — The man named a person of interest a day after human remains were found at a San Diego property has a lengthy, violent criminal history, Team 10 has learned. Dwight William Rhone, ...