As I write, hundreds of ancient human remains are secretly being buried in a remote desert 1,000km from Sydney (New South ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

US researchers are testing YCT-529, a hormone-free male birth control pill that could redefine family planning.

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors ... Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. "Compared to Neanderthals and chimpanzees who continue growing longer ...

An American woman who had been detained in Afghanistan by the Taliban since February has been released and is in “good health,” according to a source with knowledge of the release. Faye Hall ...

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An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy ... New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical ...

Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was ...