Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers ...

Using mutations as genetic clocks, the study confirmed that present-day Indians descend primarily from a single out-of-Africa migration around 50,000 years ago.

Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, says California Gov. Gavin Newsom ‘genuinely does not care’ about anti-I.C.E. riots in Los Angeles on ‘The Evening Edit.’ ...

Walking 10,000 steps a day has become a fitness guidepost—but is there any merit to the claim? And, can it do more harm than good?

The first Memorial Day in 1865 was led by freed African Americans in Charleston to honor Union soldiers and celebrate emancipation.

'Our country is divided.' Atop Mount Greylock, veterans honor the past, reckon with the present during Memorial Day ceremony ...

On the surface, it fits with some of the present zeitgeist as embodied by the Netflix phenomenon “Adolescence.” “The Passenger Seat” is the story of a pair of teenage boys inexplicably and ...

Our mothers' lives bridge our past to our present. The author's mother, Linda Rosa Caballero Hinojosa de Garza, is pictured, circa 1940s. Photo Courtesy of Melita M. Garza ...

Green River is a city of 12,000 residents, easily overlooked along the windy expanse of Interstate 80 in southwestern Wyoming. It's worth taking a look.

On a long table were pieces of clay tablets, among the hundreds of thousands that archaeologists had shipped back to London from Nineveh, in present-day Iraq, a quarter-century before.

What’s new: Almost half of global average temperature rise and a third of sea-level rise can be attributed to the “carbon majors,” the world’s 122 largest fossil fuel and cement producers ...