History

Discovery gives crucial new insight into Neanderthals' minds

X-rays reveal a surprise inside 200 million-year-old dinosaur eggs

8 tips from polar explorers for surviving months of isolation

Cold War nuclear bomb testing reveals an enduring underwater mystery

V.E. Schwab reads an exclusive preview of 'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue'

2 million-year-old ancient human skull fossils rewrite the “story of us”

Skull scans reveal the tragic end of a prehistoric monster bear

io9 founder Annalee Newitz reads a story about fixing the past

What truths lie in the ancient bones of a teen? Scientists are finding out

3-million-year-old brains reveal ancient humans like Lucy had a surprisingly modern childhood

800,000-year-old tooth presents a new chapter of human history

Ancient bones tell a swinging story about our tree-climbing ancestors — study

How Anthony Boyle learned to be Jewish

'The Plot Against America' star on the dangers of fascism today

A tiny bone has added insight to how our ancestors got around the jungle

Neanderthals ate food thought to be crucial to human intelligence — study

Meet Dineobellator, a new, fierce dinosaur species from 67 million years ago

Spanish flu facts: Top 10 misconceptions about the "greatest pandemic"

555-million-year-old fossil may reveal human’s earliest relatives

Ignaz Semmelweis: Why the “father of infection control” is so important today

Spring equinox: Why Spring 2020 is the earliest in over 100 years

Moon-scouring tech is being used to find old bombs in the Earth

Meet the ‘Wonderchicken,’ the oldest-ever bird fossil discovery

Discovered: 25,000-year-old structure made from the bones of an Ice Age beast

Excavation of 3,400-year-old ballcourt rewrites the origin of an ancient, brutal game

A new discovery reveals Earth has not always had a 24-hour day

Ancient stone tools tell an epic new story about Neanderthals

Paleontologists unearth a "real Jurassic Park" in Scotland

The "March of Progress" evolution illustration is even better when you see what it gets wrong.

Half-billion-year-old, fern-like animals may be the first social network

Homo erectus study reveals 4 new facts about this ancient human

Smallpox, seatbelts, and smoking: 3 ways public health has saved lives from history to the modern day

3-billion-year-old rocks reveal just how dramatically different Earth once was

What happened 129,000 years ago in Antarctica could be our future

Smithsonian releases massive database of free content

Ancient stone tools found in India tell an inspiring story about early humans

A billion-year-old seaweed fossil has completely rewritten ancient history

Early humans in Africa may have mated with a mysterious species

“Super-archaics:" Meet the humans who may have mated with your ancestors

Trillions of tiny organisms may have shaped humanity in 3 ways

Funeral flowers for a Neanderthal: New study reveals humanity and spirituality

The Strange Quest to Crack the Voynich Code

For Israelis and Palestinians, a Battle Over a Humble Plant

Why Zealandia is so different from other continents

Dinosaurs: New study upends a belief many learned in elementary school

Ancient "ghost" DNA identified in living humans

Liberals and conservatives are both bad at one thing, but neither can admit it

Woolly mammoth genetics study reveals their miserable, lonely end

Scientists grew trees from 2000-year-old seeds and the outcome may be delicious

9,990-year-old skull may rewrite ancient American history