“The humanoid space has a very, very big hill to climb,” said Cosima du Pasquier, founder and CEO of Haptica Robotics, which ...

Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.

You think you know Stonehenge. The iconic rock towers standing against a green field and a gray English sky are one of the ...

Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was a lush and fertile landscape, home to thriving communities. A new study ...

While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...