The papal thriller, starring Ralph Fiennes, beat award season favourites The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez to take home the night's top prize. Conclave won three other awards, including Outstanding ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b can be seen moving around its star in this 17-year timelapse created using "AI-driven ...

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in ...

NASA has worked on its own first contact protocols, conducting a 2024 workshop event about how best to communicate the ...

Inspired by the work of Robin Wood, one of the great film critics of the 20th century, Walter Metz revisits the identity ...

This is not surprising. Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its homeland to embark on its conquest of the world.

The remains of a mammoth and other artefacts which inspired a David Attenborough documentary are on display at a ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the ...

Dated to about 700,000 years old, the ... July 11, 2024 — Using genomes from 2,000 living humans as well as three Neanderthals and one Denisovan, an international team mapped the gene flow ...

It is the first time researchers use data from ... A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans.

For years, scientists have known that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred, leaving behind genetic traces that still exist in many people today. If you have ancestry outside of Africa, chances are ...