National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

A new scientific review has uncovered how complex microbial communities, including those in the human gut and the natural ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

A new study warns modern life may undermine key human survival traits, from fertility to cognition, as environmental ...

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.

AWS vice president of technology (data and analytics) Mai-Lan Tomson Bukovec spoke to the Computer Weekly Developer Network ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

Researchers found that the stress response, once designed for short-term emergencies, is now constantly activated due to ...

The fossils themselves are modest in appearance. A juvenile lower jaw packed with baby and emerging adult teeth, several ...