The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

The Out of Africa theory describes how early human species evolved in Africa before migrating across Eurasia and beyond. This episode explains the multiple migration waves, the role of climate change, ...

Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

This episode debunks the popular idea that people in Columbus’s time thought the Earth was flat and that he bravely proved them wrong. It shows how educated Europeans and earlier Greek and Arabic ...

She worried that she was inadequate at love, until she became a mother. By Sasha Weiss ...

He lived a disciplined life to make space for his wild, surrealist visions. By Ismail Muhammad ...

On Feb. 22, 2020, "Mad" Mike Hughes towed a homemade rocket to the Mojave Desert and launched himself into the sky. His goal? To view the flatness of the Earth from space. This was his third attempt, ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

An unredacted court filing reveals claims that Meta repeatedly chose user engagement over safety. An unredacted court filing reveals claims that Meta repeatedly chose user engagement over safety. is a ...

Why does a glass of wine make a holiday party feel more festive? It might be because our forebears used to party. Not the ancient Greeks, though they did name a god of wine. Go back even further than ...