For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...

Imagine walking miles and miles across dangerous terrain frequented by sabertoothed cats just to find the right rock. Around 2.6 million years ago, a group of early hominins in East Africa started to ...

Forget bullets - the first human weapons were brutal, simple, and terrifyingly effective. This is how war really began ...

Excavations near Canterbury uncovered hand axes, scrapers, and piercing tools dated between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago.

The team at Lux Aeterna explain how partnering with photogrammetry specialists Sample & Hold enabled the recreation of ...

Nearly 300,000 years ago, Neanderthals had already figured out how to hunt mountain goats along vertical cliffs and process them in well-organised camps. Known for ambushing large animals in Western ...

A handful of teeth unearthed in Ethiopia has led to the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. The finding, announced in August in the journal Nature, began with a Valentine’s Day trek seven ...

Bladder cancer is a painful and often recurring disease, not just for humans, but for our canine companions as well. Urothelial carcinoma, the most common type of bladder cancer, affects both species ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

PayPal and Venmo users will get early access to a new artificial intelligence-based tool that could herald the payment company’s next steps with agentic commerce. Perplexity.AI’s Perplexity Pro, ...

Thermal power plants, nuclear and fossil-fueled, rely on cooling water intake structures (CWIS) to withdraw water for rejecting waste heat. The CWIS serves as a critical interface between engineered ...

Starting kindergarten is a big step for young children. It can also be a key time to spot which students might need some extra help with that life transition. A new, free screening tool, created by ...