Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the "Dyson sphere" has been the holy grail of ...

When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...

Advocates warn the Trump administration’s withdrawal could stall international momentum on reparations and embolden resistance to racial equity worldwide. The Trump administration’s decision to ...

While it likely went unnoticed by many living in the United States, the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent is alarming advocates and ...

The largest Somali community in the U.S. is finding itself the subject of unwanted attention in the wake of criminal investigations and attacks from the Trump administration. Abdi Samatar left Somalia ...

The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...

William E. Cross Jr’s Nigrescence Theory (1971; revised 1991, 2001) provides a powerful framework for understanding the rise in violence and alienation among youth of African descent in Bermuda. The ...

New prostate cancer research from an international team led by the Center for Genetic Epidemiology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has yielded discoveries that could improve screening and ...