The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

Black History Month, a celebration of Black history, culture and education, kicks off on Feb. 1. Historian and author Carter ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Origins after its winter break has confirmed my worst fears about Mark Harmon's prequel on Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Although the ...

A recent study in Current Biology suggests dinosaurs originated in Gondwana's low-latitude regions, rather than mid-latitudes of South America and Africa. The findings indicate early dinosaurs thrived ...

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

Have you ever wondered how Australia's many Indigenous languages relate to one another and how far back the connections go?