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President Trump has taken some actions that do not have a comparable historical example, according to historians. President ...

A groundbreaking genetic study has revealed that Italians who reach 100 carry significantly more ancient Western hunter-gatherer DNA than their younger counterparts. The research, published in ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

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Scientists investigating an ancient mystery have uncovered the first evidence that a Bronze Age strain of plague infected ...