After Israel’s refusal to withdraw its security forces from the mosque compound, Hamas launches a sustained rocket barrage ...

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On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...

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"We could see that this could really change how much we can find out about human history." Image caption, Researchers extracting tiny bones from the ear of a skull fragment of a person that lived ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... Weeks later, the pair’s son Pax reportedly called Pitt a “world class a**hole” and “f***ing awful human being” in a ...

Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.

2002: Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and ...

One figure widely quoted by pest control companies: There are 1,000 pounds of termites for every human on Earth. If you like big numbers, the 2018 report is delicious reading. Recently ...

“The desire to start fresh is a human impulse,” says Candida Moss, a University of Birmingham professor specializing in ancient history and early Christianity. From vows made by Babylonian ...