After 18 months, revamped Jewish Museum of Maryland opens ...

The shrine to some of baseball's best and previously-forgotten players is getting too big to miss largely out of necessity, and one of baseball's best storytellers talks about how the Negro Leagues ...

“These samples were collected with great care to avoid contamination with modern DNA as opposed to earlier Neanderthal genomes,” says Briones. Earlier samples were collected and sequenced from museum ...

That was when he realized his “shiny rock” might be older than he ever imagined. The museum’s team confirmed his hunch, and identified it as a rare Neanderthal hand axe from the Late Middle ...

Finding evidence of ancient glue from a Neanderthal site Led by Dr. Patrick Schmidt from the University of Tübingen and Dr. Ewa Dutkiewicz from the Museum of Prehistory and Early History at the ...

Chris Green is a member of the Holocaust Education Committee of the Quad Cities, a group dedicated to teaching people about the history of the Holocaust. Green says her inspiration is Eva Kor, a ...

And though it superficially resembled a Neanderthal tooth, remains of that species had never been definitively identified in East Asia. The scientists exchanged baffled looks: Who was the owner of ...

Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient relatives. Neanderthals weren't the cave-dwelling, knuckle-dragging brutes ...

2011). The question of what may have happened during these encounters and what the role of the early modern humans could have been in the Neanderthal extinction, have been the subject of intense ...

As a consequence of this encounter, modern populations outside Africa carry about 2–3% Neanderthal ancestry in their genomes. The ancient populations expanding out of Africa subsequently ...

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.