[Update: Clarified that the fossils of more than one individual discovered at the site; the previous description implied that there was only one individual recovered.] Archaeologists have unearthed evidence that a group of “little people” that were previously featured only in indigenous Taiwanese legend really did exist, meaning that ifread more
“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.” ~ William Gibson While physicists and philosophers have been trying to unravel the mystery of time itself for, well, a long time now, the latter half of Gibson’s quote is well worth looking at: if our perception of time—a or moreread more
A new study published in The Lancet is forecasting a “jaw-dropping” decline in the planet’s population by 2100, with the number of people in 23 countries expected to drop by half by the end of the century. While fewer humans using up fewer resources might sound like a good thing, the study’sread more
A new archaeological discovery in a cave in Mexico is once again pushing back the timeline of human presence in the Americas, this time by at least 15,000 years earlier than the generally-accepted date of roughly 13,000 years ago. In addition to earlier finds that also point to an earlierread more