Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern ...

Here are must-see works from the 2026 Costume Institute exhibition, "Costume Art," in which fashion contends with the human ...

Prehistoric rock art site in northeast Zimbabwe showing a variety of large animals including elephant and rhino. Image ...

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

Spanish opera "El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego" takes the stage in New York City this week, while a partner exhibition at ...

Every March 1, Davao City celebrates Araw ng Dabaw with parades, concerts, pageants, and festivals that transform the city ...

The human skull has changed noticeably over the past 100 years, becoming rounder, wider and structurally different from earlier generations, according to a new study by scientists in Japan.

Colossal heads, with luminous faces – intense and inscrutable – line the walls of Jenny Saville's studio in Oxford, England. She described the portrait's inner glow: "I'll just rub the paint in and ...

Love isn’t a word, or a concept, that one usually associates with Marcel Duchamp, the modernist master of irony and distance, but love—love of the mind and what it can do, love of bodies and play, ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of “perfect design”: elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, when we look closer, a rather different picture emerges. Far from being a ...

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Chaka Khan isn't too impressed with how the pop music industry has evolved. The "I Feel for You" singer sounded off on contemporary stars' emphasis on production value and theatrics in an interview ...