Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding ...

Geography, demographics, religion, technology, and a state’s institutions determined why certain states exercised power and how different regions developed the way that they did.

A new front has opened in China’s efforts to control the narrative around Taiwan, as the world’s largest nation attempts to ...

The lines of artificial coastal developments might be neat and straight but in reality, they are fragmenting ecosystems and ...

Across Asia, chefs reshape global dining through the recipes they grew up with. Their influence has turned the region into a major force in culinary innovation, driven by a growing appetite for ...

A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippine Sea on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 9:43 a.m. Philippine time about 12 miles east of ...

The Inuit of the far north helped solve the mystery of a doomed 19th-century expedition. Now Canada needs them to strengthen its claim to this newly contested region.

The amount of forest lost around the world has reduced by millions of hectares each year in recent decades, says a UN report.

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...

The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be ...