Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

We live in a time when nearly anything we could want is at our fingertips. People can have food delivered to their front ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...

The U.S. has always been a place where reality sometimes feels stranger than fiction—a melting pot of cultures, technologies, ...

An expedition searching for life around Antarctica has uncovered a strange new world — one teeming with creatures never seen before. Among them: a spherical, carnivorous sponge covered in thousands of ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how ...

In our modern society, aging tends to be something we ignore, and then try to avoid. Mainstream culture is geared toward the ...

Twenty-five years ago, humanity made a significant leap into permanent space habitation. On November 2, 2000, NASA astronaut ...

In a world deluged by dire environmental news and seemingly short on scalable solutions, a recent report spotlights ten ...

It’s an unprecedented space streak: 25 years of people living off-planet without even a moment’s pause. The International Space ...