Research reveals that Serbian cave systems show evidence of human occupation during the second half of the last ice age. Humans may have been occupying these caves in the Balkans at a time when other ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another. By Emily Anthes In the waning days of the ...

Some bones indicate that the hunter-gatherers of the time fed dogs fish. Their remains were also treated in similar ways to those of humans in death. Reading time 3 minutes The bond between humans and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts are on their way to the moon. NASA’s colossal Space Launch ...

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago. Two new genetic analyses combed the archaeological record for domestic dogs ...

A new report found that bots have surpassed human internet traffic. HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic year-over-year.

This story was updated April 2, 2026, to note that after orbiting Earth, Artemis II is now on the trajectory that will take it around the moon. For the first time in more than half a century, humans ...

California’s state Senate transportation committee on Tuesday passed a bill 7-2 that would require autonomous vehicle companies to employ their own technicians — one for every three self-driving cars ...

Set to lift off this week, the NASA flight will take astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years. If all goes to plan, as soon as tomorrow, NASA will launch four people on a ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Most of us, if we think about chins at all, do so rarely. But it turns out that chins ...

The Artemis II mission will not land on the moon but will instead circle it to test NASA's Orion capsule. This historic mission will include the first woman, first Black man, and first Canadian to ...