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

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 ...

A new study explores how ancient southern African populations, isolated for nearly 100,000 years, developed distinct genetic ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy straightforward explanation. From the jut of the human chin to the curve of the outer ...

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

With its unusual combination of features, the deep sea creature helps explain how other modern species emerged from a common ...

I pushed a chatbot through several millennia of linguistic evolution. An AI from the year 5000 lectured me about pronouns.