In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

Later my father put on a gray sweater. We ate chili by a fire. We talked about baseball. My father smiled. He was growing a beard. One day he would be smiling in the Denver Airport of Death, but today ...

Two sets of fossilized footprints from early human species were made within a few hours of each other about 1.5 million years ...

An international team of researchers led by Pere Gelabert and Ron Pinhasi of the University of Vienna and David Reich of ...

A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a ...

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

After much debate between scientists, a small skeleton found in a quarry near Bristol has been identified as the world’s ...

For over a century, biologists have puzzled over the origins of animals that first emerged in ancient oceans more than 600 ...

India has been re-elected to the UN Peacebuilding Commission for 2025-2026, reaffirming its commitment to global peace and stability. As a founding member and major contributor to UN Peacekeeping ...

Kamala Harris released a Thanksgiving video in which she and her husband, Doug Emhoff, shared their gratitude for family, friends, and service members. Social media users noted she wore the same ...

In a paper published today, Nov. 28, in the journal Science, an international team of researchers from the U.S., Kenya and the UK provide the first direct evidence of two different ancient human ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes mysterious groups like the Denisovans—ancient human relatives whose histories are ...