An analysis of more than 3 million years of human evolution shows that communication and technology developed in lockstep. As ancient humans came up with more advanced stone tools and other ...

It’s not every day that you get to see something no one in the world has seen before. But Ren Ng and four of his colleagues are lucky enough to have had that experience. A few months ago, Ng sat down ...

Rare rocks buried deep beneath central Australia have revealed the origins of one of the world’s most promising new deposits of niobium — a metal vital for producing high-strength steel and clean ...

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A new study by the University of Science and Technology of China's (USTC) Archaeo-metallurgy Laboratory reveals a compelling ...

Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: early Earth's oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we ...

Greek F-16 fighter jets fly in front of the ancient Acropolis during a military parade to commemorate the start of Greece's 1821 war of independence against the 400-year Ottoman rule in Athens on ...

This image provided by William Usaquen and Andrea Casas-Vargas shows the high plains in Bogota, Colombia where a new group of humans lived 6,000 years ago. (William Usaquen, Andrea Casas-Vargas via AP ...