The find suggests that as many as four different hominin lineages lived in eastern Africa between 2.5 million and 3 million ...

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Hundreds of humanoids from 16 countries stumbled over each other while competing in the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing ...

The khipu knot-tying system was thought to have only been used by elites, but one artifact suggests commoners, too, knew how ...

Badly damaged during the Battle of Valcour Island, the "Philadelphia" is now the focus of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian ...

In 1774, 51 North Carolinian women led by Penelope Barker signed a resolution supporting the boycott of British goods ...

Researchers are studying pollen grains for applications across medicine and engineering. Martin Siepmann/. At first glance, ...

Researchers set out to investigate how streaked shearwaters take off and instead were surprised to discover that the birds ...

Some residents who couldn't afford to resettle elsewhere returned to the city, where they occupied the upper floors of ...

The colorful artwork decorates the frigidarium of the Villa Romana del Casale, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Sicily ...

Brown anoles around New Orleans have the highest blood concentrations of lead ever recorded in vertebrates—and scientists ...