Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Traces of plant poison on ancient African arrowheads provide the oldest direct evidence of poisoned weapons. Scientists have ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.