10 October 2019
Ancient DNA suggests that during the Bronze Age, wealthy families once lived with poorer individuals, suggesting live-in slavery could be 1300 years older than we thought
19 June 2019
Analysing ancient pots has revealed the drinking habits of Celts in France. Over 2000 years ago they were drinking beer, mead and imported Greek wines
19 June 2019
Anthropologist Ruth Mace talks about what motivates us, and how the Tibetan plateau is the best place to be if the apocalypse comes
15 May 2019
Efforts to group us by our genes are arbitrary and encourage the subtle return of race within mainstream science, argues Angela Saini
8 May 2019
An emotional and intellectual voyage into an underground mythical world imagined by the Sami people reveals truths about our collective future
16 April 2019
A study of some 8-million-year-old teeth found in Greece suggests a controversial idea: that hominins arose in Europe and then moved into Africa later
14 March 2019
The development of agriculture in the Neolithic transformed world languages thanks to softer food – a finding that resolves a long-standing puzzle of the origin of speech sounds
19 February 2019
Rainforest species are usually too difficult for people to catch – but for 45,000 years, humans in Sri Lanka survived by hunting squirrels and monkeys
9 January 2019
Explore the female midwives and doctors who have worked in a male-dominated world for centuries, plus robotics visionary Yamanaka Shunji brings his designs to London
18 December 2018
Watch a man reconstruct his memory in Welcome to Marwen, listen to the Apollo 8 crew in lunar orbit 50 years ago and admire AI-created digital canvases
