Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

A new study provides a clearer timeline for one of the most significant prehistoric sites worldwide for the study of human ...

These three connected stories about the whole of human history can’t quite sustain the necessary emotional heft.

When a stone sits on the Earth’s surface, cosmic rays quietly pepper it, leaving behind rare isotopes like tiny time stamps.

AI’s rise feels faster and deeper than past tech shifts—reshaping not just what we build, but how we build, learn, and evolve in an accelerating feedback loop.

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

Fossil remains discovered in Nikiti, Greece, have fueled debate over whether early human ancestors may have lived in Europe ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African ...

This article takes a deep dive into the history of proteomics from the conception of the term “proteome” up to modern-day advances in bioinformatics and single-cell protein analysis.

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave art that we don’t have the technology to date. Columnist Michael Marshall ...

In the 1930s, unusual footprints discovered in the Paluxy Riverbed in Texas sparked claims that human and dinosaur tracks existed side by side. Some observers argued the impressions showed humans ...