Discover daily life in Kemerovo, a coal mining city in the heart of Kuzbass, Russia's largest coal basin. This video examines ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.

Nowadays archaeologists guess that ancient humans first entered the Americas as long as 24,000 years ago, perhaps via a sea ...

Single-cell bacteria, in shallow marine waters, altered the composition of liquid and air – as the planet heaved around them. Their fossils still stand, not far from you.

Kolkata: Numismatic Society of Calcutta (NSC), which is celebrating its 40th anniversary, will exhibit currency notes of 40 ...

Helen Nash, a New-York based kosher cookbook author and philanthropist who pioneered modern kosher cooking starting in the ...

Ever since eighteenth-century scholars recognized that Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit all descended from a common language, researchers have been consumed with determining who first spoke this ancient ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks. 15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic ...

Ancient footprints discovered in White Sands, New Mexico, are challenging long-held beliefs about when humans first arrived ...