Mali is facing a deepening security and political crisis as jihadist groups expand from the north into central, western and southern regions. A coordinated April 2026 assault struck four major cities, ...

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Returning to a detecting spot first featured on the channel roughly 16 years earlier, the hunt quickly turns into a Civil War relic bonanza. The very first target is identified as a fired Civil War ...

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Amid this controversy, Russian biologist Ilya Ivanov set out in the mid-1920s to crossbreed humans and chimpanzees. Ivanov ...

People worldwide carry DNA from a mysterious extinct human lineage that interbred with our ancestors long ago.

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Humanity’s family tree is long and tangled. Scientists sort our ancient relatives into three familiar groups: Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Each of these is a “genus”, the rank just above a ...