Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why.

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Denmark’s foremost professor of mobility studies decodes a policy that is increasingly touted as a model to emulate ...

Researchers say elongated alien-like skulls found in ancient graves were shaped in infancy and carried different meanings across cultures.

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

When it comes to historical discoveries, it's usually what's inside the pyramids rather than the pyramids themselves which interests researchers. Ever since British archaeologist Howard Carter ...

On a hillside rising from the Pisco Valley in southern Peru’s coastal desert, just over 20 miles from the Pacific, lies one of the most puzzling—and puzzled over—built features in the world. Known as ...