Combining Subnautica, Ark, and Outer Wilds, new prehistoric fantasy survival game Astrobotanica has already eclipsed its Kickstarter goal.

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

The world’s most powerful economy, the United States, may be dismissing hard data and scientific consensus for now, while ...

Clever cavemen like Fred Flintstone protected themselves from dangerous ultraviolet light from the sun by living in caves, ...

Japan’s 310,000-ton methanol-powered tanker is set to revolutionize green shipping by 2028—cutting CO₂ by 40% with realistic ...

From outer space threats to dangerous dino drama — from super-powered action to robotic horror — and from mega-budget ...

Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan ...

On a faraway planet, James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by living ...

I’ve read both that modern humans interbred with Neanderthals and that they didn’t. Which is it? Robert Redinger, Grant, Michigan There is evidence that they did, in a limited way, says ...

provide the most conclusive evidence to date that humans were actually here much earlier, toward the end of the last ice age. It’s possible that they reached North America more than 32,000 years ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefitted from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North ...

Neanderthals, who did not have such clothing and possibly did not use ochre as sunblock, disappeared from Europe roughly ...