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They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

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As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

A big difference between humans and other apes is the ability to stride easily on two feet. A new analysis of fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking go back 7 million years.

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A quarter of a century ago--way back when Bill Clinton was president, Saddam Hussein was still running Iraq, and your cellphone, if you had one, was a brick--CNN and USA Today commissioned a poll by ...

The Department of State has instructed U.S. embassies located in Western nations to report human rights abuses occurring ...

For a certain type of science-fiction fan, Exodus was the biggest announcement out of the 2025 Game Awards. Those fans just ...