Almost every man alive can trace his origins to one man who lived about 135,000 years ago, new research suggests. And that ancient man likely shared the planet with the mother of all women.

I wonder where are the safety nets...

Rare artifact from the Moche people dates back around 1,300 years.

Don't let your preconceived notions about cavemen make you seem like a caveman.

The baby cage, for hanging babies out of the window for families without a garden. 1937

Whataboutistm: a rhetorical defense that alleges hypocrisy from the accuser. And it's going to make it a lot harder to criticize Moscow on human rights.

The internet's Nikola Tesla obsession is in full force. There's Tesla fanfic, endless blog posts rediscovering the great inventor, and of course, Matthew Inman's tremendously popular webcomic about the man. But curiously, there's one crucial thing missing: Any digitized film of Tesla.

Ashton Kutcher is a convincing Steve Jobs in a film that gives Apple's other founder short shrift.

The communal family television is being displaced by individual tablets and customized content streams. Meanwhile research indicates that watching Netflix on your iPad instead of a broadcast on your TV will, indeed, make you more self-centered. What's to be done?

An American tourist has accidentally snapped the finger off a priceless 14th century statue in Florence. The unnamed man was reportedly spotted by a security guard as he began touching the statue and trying to measure its finger, but attempts to stop him came too late and the digit broke off.

How three dozen computer scientists decided the three letters we see every day.

This project displays over 100 years of NOAA monthly land temperature data collected from over 7,200 climate monitoring stations, with each month creating unique geometric artwork.

A team from the University of Washington has unveiled a comprehensive portrait of the genome of the world’s first immortal cell line, known as HeLa. The cell line was derived in 1951 from an aggressive cervical cancer that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year-old African-American tobacco farmer and mother of five – the subject of the 2010 New York Times best-seller, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”

Got the measuring tape out and everything.

Archaeologist Anya Shetler cleans an inscription below an ancient stucco frieze recently unearthed in the buried Maya city of Holmul in the Peten region of Guatemala. Sunlight from a tunnel entrance highlights the carved legs of a ruler sitting atop the head of a Maya mountain spirit.

In 1945, a U.S. naval ship was sunk by a Japanese submarine, but the ship's sinking was just the beginning of the sailors' nightmare.

An investigation into a stolen baby has been re-opened after DNA evidence showed someone else's child was returned to the missing infant’s parents nearly 50 years ago. The FBI told Chicago newspapers that they were re-investigating the case of Paul Fronczak, who was taken as a newborn from the city’s Michael Reese Hospital in 1964.

A long-lost film by Hollywood legend Orson Welles has been discovered in a warehouse in Italy, and will finally premier this Autumn – 75 years after it was made.

Ho Van Thanh and Ho Van Lang, a father and son missing for 40 years, were discovered living in a Vietnam forest.

Discovery of furry animal with sharp teeth and poisonous spur provides more clues to the evolution of mammals.