Five globally respected academic institutions have come together to launch the Global Alliance on Sustainable Urban Societies ...

More than 400,000 years ago—long before the rise of the first agricultural civilizations or even the arrival of Homo sapiens ...

Neolithic cemeteries in China reveal matrilineal societies, challenging traditional assumptions about early human societies.

Genetic analysis of skeletons at Catalhoyuk, a Neolithic settlement in Turkey, suggests a matriarchal society where women ...

How might we reimagine freedom on an increasingly turbulent and resource-constrained planet? Charting a course between rival ...

IN today’s rapidly changing world, where crises such as climate change, social divisions and technological upheavals are ...

We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights Elisa Morgera on Monday presented a new report to the General Assembly calling for the criminalization of spreading disinformation regarding the ...

For years, scientists have believed that inflammation inevitably increases with age, quietly fuelling diseases like heart ...

New research analyzing isotopes from ancient African remains reveals how societies adapted strategies to survive major climate change.