WHEN I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, a librarian leaned over my laptop one day to share some lore. “Legend has it,” she said, “John James Audubon really collected ...

Mayme Williams sat in the lobby of the Country Villa apartments in Moberly, reminiscing about the all-Black Lincoln School in ...

Losing control of AGI is just like walking right off a cliff, in which case it's game over for humanity,” warned Max Tegmark.

With the president-elect adding more cabinet members to his administration, here’s a look at the spots he still needs to fill ...

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

One of contentious parts of the history of the American Civil War is the question of whether southern blacks served as ...

Kennedy abandoned his presidential bid after striking a deal to have a role in health policy in the administration.

You can urge a Republican-controlled Congress to enforce guardrails against Trump’s lawlessness. You can draw a line in the ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

The morning after the election, the historian discussed some books that shed light on the precedents for our fractured ...