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People may have smoked marijuana in rituals 2,500 years ago in western China

Cannabis may have been altering minds at an ancient high-altitude cemetery, researchers say

By Bruce Bower | 2:01pm, June 12, 2019

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Ancestry

News in Brief | Ancestry

DNA reveals ancient Siberians who set the stage for the first Americans

By Bruce Bower | 12:00pm, June 07, 2019

News | Ancestry

Ancient DNA suggests people settled South America in at least 3 waves

By Tina Hesman Saey | 9:00am, November 09, 2018

News in Brief | Ancestry

Meet the first known child of a Neandertal and a Denisovan

By Tina Hesman Saey | 1:00pm, August 22, 2018
Anthropology

News | Anthropology

Hominids may have been cutting-edge tool makers 2.6 million years ago

By Bruce Bower | 3:00pm, June 03, 2019

News in Brief | Anthropology

Africa’s first herders spread pastoralism by mating with foragers

By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, May 30, 2019

News | Anthropology

Fossil teeth push the human-Neandertal split back to about 1 million years ago

By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, May 15, 2019
Archaeology

News | Archaeology

These knotted cords may hide the first evidence that the Incas collected taxes

By Bruce Bower | 7:00am, June 11, 2019

News in Brief | Archaeology

Cave debris may be the oldest known example of people eating starch

By Bruce Bower | 9:00am, May 31, 2019

News in Brief | Archaeology

Ancient South American populations dipped due to an erratic climate

By Bruce Bower | 1:17pm, May 09, 2019
History of Science

50 Years Ago | History of Science

50 years ago, scientists wanted to build solar panels on the moon

By Kyle Plantz | 8:00am, June 07, 2019

Context | History of Science

Murray Gell-Mann gave structure to the subatomic world

By Tom Siegfried | 5:09pm, May 24, 2019

Context | History of Science

These are the top 10 landmarks in the history of making measurements

By Tom Siegfried | 9:00am, May 20, 2019
Human Evolution

News | Human Evolution

A jawbone shows Denisovans lived on the Tibetan Plateau long before humans

By Bruce Bower | 1:00pm, May 01, 2019

News | Human Evolution

A new hominid species has been found in a Philippine cave, fossils suggest

By Bruce Bower | 1:00pm, April 10, 2019

News | Human Evolution

The first known fossil of a Denisovan skull has been found in a Siberian cave

By Bruce Bower | 11:01am, March 29, 2019
Language

News | Language

The rise of farming altered our bite and changed how people talk

By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, March 14, 2019

News | Language

Artificial intelligence is learning not to be so literal

By Maria Temming | 6:00am, February 05, 2019

News | Language

Here’s what makes satire so funny, according to science

By Maria Temming | 2:39pm, February 01, 2019
Networks

The List | Networks

Ask AI: How not to kill online conversations

By Maria Temming | 9:00am, January 03, 2018

The Science Life | Networks

Balloons will broadcast the 2017 solar eclipse live from on high

By Lisa Grossman | 1:30pm, July 26, 2017

Feature | Networks

Big biological datasets map life's networks

By Laurel Hamers | 10:00am, October 19, 2016
Psychology

News | Psychology

Bad moods could be contagious among ravens

By Carolyn Wilke | 5:37pm, May 20, 2019

News | Psychology

Why war’s emotional wounds run deeper for some kids and not others

By Bruce Bower | 8:00am, April 28, 2019

Feature | Psychology

When anxiety happens as early as preschool, treatments can help

By Sujata Gupta | 6:00am, April 21, 2019
Science & Society

News | Science & Society

Genealogy companies could struggle to keep clients’ data from police

By Tina Hesman Saey | 12:00pm, June 10, 2019

News in Brief | Science & Society

The U.S. is still using many pesticides that are banned in other countries

By Maria Temming | 8:00am, June 10, 2019

Exhibit | Science & Society

The Smithsonian’s ‘Deep Time’ exhibit gives dinosaurs new life

By Carolyn Gramling | 12:17pm, June 04, 2019

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