The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Advanced alien civilizations might not be whispering across the cosmos with radio waves at all, but instead flickering like ...

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Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

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A University of Arizona-led team using a camera orbiting Mars has captured the closest images yet of an interstellar comet so rare that it has sparked wild speculation about its alien origins. The ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...