Millions of federal student loan borrowers face a renewed threat to their wages and tax refunds starting May 5, when the ...

Recent discoveries provide new insights into why Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Specifically, a study ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

This might have contributed to why humans lived and Neanderthals went extinct. “This is something that is deeply rooted in Homo sapiens,” says Slimak. “This new way that Homo sapiens behaved was super ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

But they finally became extinct - about 28,000 years ago - because Cro-Magnon Man was more socially advanced and able to develop communities and a language. In the end, Neanderthals were outwitted ...