Over the last 12 months, scientists from London’s Natural History Museum have been busy collecting, studying and cataloguing the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth. Museum scientists have given ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

New research shows stone tool production in the Central African rainforest remained remarkably consistent for a period of ...

Study reveals rising artemisinin resistance in Africa, echoing Asia's past, urging urgent action to prevent widespread crisis ...

Sephardi Jews flourished for centuries in Muslim Spain and Portugal, creating a luminous culture of poetry, science, and ...

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The global AI ecosystem has been built upon an epistemic void, a missing centre, an unacknowledged blind spot that has quietly limited the scope of machine reasoning while amplifying biases inherited ...

Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

As Magatho Mello and Nketheleni Norman Gidi fill the leadership vacuum at the state entities, ITWeb examines the expertise ...

Between the 16th and 19th centuries, when colonialism was the prevailing order, it is not surprising that scientific expeditions, specimen deposits in natural history museums, and descriptions of ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...