But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

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(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) In this image from video provided by the U.S. Senate, Aileen M. Cannon speaks remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight nomination hearing to be U.S.

On January 14, hippies and other counterculture participants swarmed to the polo grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in a gathering called the Human Be-In. Timothy Leary advised ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared ... “That flowstone took thousands of years to form, but the sediment flooded in here in ...

Now, one theorist warns that the human civilization of 8.2 billion people is at a critical junction: teetering between what he forecasts will be authoritarian collapse and superabundance.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance has questioned U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon for issuing orders in Donald Trump's classified documents case when the case has been closed since July 2024.

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday allowed the release ... Trump critics see the report as an important form of accountability after Smith, citing Justice Department policy barring ...

Judge Aileen Cannon has slapped down an attempt to block special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion case. That will effectively make Smith’s ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...