Secrets swirl through homes and villages around the world, and in a poor district of Makeni, Sierra Leone, they involve what ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Enter the digital human. Rapid progress in computer graphics, coupled with advances in AI, is putting humanlike faces on chatbots and other computer-based interfaces.

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We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they ...

Kenya's northern Kakuma refugee camp is home to more than 300,000 people fleeing conflict from dozens of east Africa ...

In a powerful ceremony of reconciliation and cultural restoration, ancestral leaders of the Lummi and Haida nations gathered on Orcas Island to formally restore traditional place names to sacred sites ...

It has taken humans over 100 years to see a rare Antarctic gonate squid alive and swimming through the dark, cold ocean.

Newly Discovered Footprints Dramatically Re-date When Humans First Came to Americas The discovery backdates the first North American settlers by thousands of years. Declan Gallagher ...