One of the wonderful things about science is that we’re always discovering new things that not only expand our knowledge, but ...
The face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman was reconstructed by a team of scientists in England — revealing that the extinct race likely looked more like humans than researchers previously ...
Scientists unveil the face of Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal woman from 75,000 years ago, through meticulous reconstruction of her crushed skull found in Iraqi Kurdistan's Shanidar Cave. This ...
While most of the team’s new finds are located in the main asteroid belt, about 100 are near-Earth asteroids that pass close to our planet’s orbit Aaron Boorstein Staff Contributor An angled ...
Archaeologists have identified what may be Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure, submerged 21 meters below the Baltic Sea in the Bay of Mecklenburg, Germany. This structure – which has ...
Scientists have discovered a phenomenon with water that fundamentally changes our understanding of how the world works and could lead to brand new technologies. A team from Massachusetts Institute ...
In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting longer.
About 1.8 million years ago, a boy died. An abcessed tooth suggests an infection may have killed him, although the cause is not certain. His bones were fossilized, and they lay undetected until ...
Have you ever wondered why we behave the way we do? From the evolution of human aggression to why humans are so curious, Live Science takes you inside our minds to explain the science behind the ...
The newly-discovered cells help shed light on how the liver repairs itself after damage. Scientists have discovered a new type of cell in the liver that plays a critical role in repairing damage.
One of the wonderful things about science is that we’re always discovering new things that not only expand our knowledge, but also change things we’d taken as a given for many years.
LONDON — She looks pretty good for 75,000 years old. Particularly given that her skull was smashed into 200 pieces, possibly by a rockfall, before scientists meticulously pieced it together over ...