Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...

To Einstein, the mysterious could be equated with the unknown. As I explore in my new book The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and The Search for Meaning, just out, the mysterious need not ...

The largest study yet to look at the genetics of ice age hunter-gatherers in Europe has uncovered a previously unknown lineage dubbed the Fournol.

The essential question, then, is whether what is unknown, or part of it, is unknowable, beyond our grasp. This question has enormous relevance for science and for society, as it sets the essential ...