Becky Albertalli's "Something Unpredictable" will publish next year and features two perspectives and an ensemble of "pining, lovesick mallrats." ...

Adrián Villar Rojas’s “First Gods, Lost Animals” is at the Aspen Art Museum through April 11, 2027. Photo by Jörg Baumann Courtesy the artist, Aspen Art Museum, kurimanzutto and Marian Goodman Gallery ...

Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.

In the sixth episode of our Stones & Bones video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur investigates a ...

I recently learned the literal translation for the two-part Latin term, “homo sapiens.” I knew “homo” in Latin means “man,” representing “humans” more generally. I also knew that in Greek, “homo” has ...

A 110,000-year-old archaeological site in Israel and a newly published stratigraphic sequence from a cave in the northern ...

What matters most to the proponents of testosterone supplementation is an outdated definition of masculinity. No biology or ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, ...

Almost a quarter of a century ago, archaeologists discovered the remains of an ancient man about 1 m tall on the Indonesian island of Flores. The find turned out to be so unusual that many experts ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

A prehistoric human known as Homo erectus was the first of our forerunners to leave Africa, crossing continents and ultimately roaming the planet for almost 2 million years. But with scarce genetic ...