What Really Killed The Neanderthals? A Space Physicist Has a Radical Idea

A new research suggests that a shift in the Earth's magnetic poles around 41,000 years ago, known as the Laschamp event, may have contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals.

Neanderthal DNA Exists in Humans, But One Piece Is Mysteriously Missing

The Homo sapiens genome today contains a little bit of Neanderthal DNA. These genetic traces come from almost every part of the Neanderthal genome – except the Y sex chromosome, which is responsible for making males.