Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern ...

Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday.

The shocking blood of the men forms an obscene art: a moustache, alone on a sidewalk, a blistered hand’s gold ring still ...

A cave in Galilee, Israel, has yielded evidence for ritualistic gathering 35,000 years ago, the earliest on the Asian continent.

Simply put, the National Museum of Health and Medicine offers macabre and magic all at once — perfect for an autumn night. Located near Washington DC, with its sleek modernist exterior and the world’s ...

Archaeologists have found a cache of over a dozen broken human skulls at a Stone Age village site in Italy, a discovery that could advance our understanding of how ancient humans related to their ...

Researchers find that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein persists in the skull-meninges-brain axis, driving neuroinflammation, ...

Homo juluensis fossils reveal a mix of archaic and modern traits, offering insights into Pleistocene hominin evolution.

Denisovans interbred with early humans multiple times, leaving genes that helped modern humans adapt to varied environments, ...

A collection of over forty new studies about the Human Cell Atlas has now been published. This work encompasses the efforts ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...