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 ...

Now, this one's been around since the Neanderthal days, but Gen Z has repackaged it with ... where one half is dying inside ...

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 ...

How different are we from Neanderthals? The answer is “not as much as we used to think”. Or, to put it another way, the more we learn about this group of archaic humans, the more similarities ...

Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient relatives. Neanderthals weren't the cave-dwelling, knuckle-dragging brutes ...