New research shows many people vastly underestimate other people's beliefs in extraterrestrial life. Is social stigma keeping ...

Federal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas have filed 250 new immigration-related criminal cases, targeting human smugglers and illegal aliens with prior convictions.

As Nicolas Roeg’s enigmatic, unclassifiable film – in which David Bowie plays an alien visiting Earth – turns 50, we look back at Tom Milne’s deciphering of it. From our Summer 1976 issue.

A federal judge ordered a 14-year-old taken by immigration agents in Marlborough and driven to New York to be returned to her aunt in Massachusetts.

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

A new study suggests that the deadly insects evolved their taste for human blood much earlier than previously thought, around when Homo erectus migrated into Southeast Asia ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...