The narrow Hormuz waterway funnels almost 20 percent of global crude oil, so even a single-day blockade rattles the oil ...

While global fertility declines and military arsenals expand, modern warfare evolves rapidly. Sri Lanka grapples with a different challenge, releasing its first census of crop-damaging animals, ...

Tom Hanks, beyond his iconic roles, harbors a profound love for literature. Discover the books that have shaped his world, ...

We found the cost of a single shootdown spans three zeros: a hobbyist can stop a buzzing quad-copter for $587, while a nation ...

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied ...

Even though there are 8 billion people on Earth today, a catastrophe could send that number much lower within a few decades.

Very few people live beyond a century. So, if no one had babies anymore, there would probably be no humans left on Earth within 100 years. But first, the population would shrink as older folks died ...

Fossils once thought to represent the oldest dated Homo sapiens remains are now categorized as a subspecies of Homo sapiens: Idaltu. ... Ukraine receives missile that could shift the war’s momentum.

Modern Homo sapiens was one, not particularly successful, side-branch, with a total population of perhaps 30,000 individuals among many competing sapiens lineages. If an alien exobiologist had come to ...

A recent study led by the University of Michigan suggests that Homo sapiens who inhabited Europe around 41,000 years ago may have survived a period of intense solar radiation thanks to technological ...