Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

University of Ferrara researchers in Italy have examined how European skin, eye and hair pigmentation evolved over the past ...

Why did humans start speaking? Scientists suggest genetics played a big role. They say the evolution of this singular ability ...

Will Trump’s actions wake Europe up or destroy the trans-Atlantic alliance?

Google renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America for U.S.-based users of Google Maps. Mexico's President Claudia ...

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Ukraine's president has discussed the idea of possibly swapping territories with Russia in future peace negotiations with President Donald Trump.

The tech giant Google took several steps this week to keep on the good side of the Trump administration. For starters, the ...

By contrast, Ireland's will go down slightly, 15 per 100,000 people. In general, western Europe being wealthier fares better than eastern Europe, Masselot said. Several heat waves have killed ...

On Monday, Google said it would update its maps to display Gulf of America as soon as the U.S. government updated its official maps. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes ...

Google said today that it plans to update Google Maps to reflect President Trump’s January 20th executive order to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali to the Gulf of America and ...