Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

For nearly a month, the Rockies tried something you don’t see very often: They carried one left-handed reliever. If you’ve ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

A growing number of discoveries are reshaping long-held ideas about human evolution, from unexpectedly early stone tools to ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

Devo's uncontrollable urge to make new noise sired a new-wave sound with a puckish punk energy. The ’70s wasn't ready for ...

For centuries, people tried to build ornithopters that flapped like birds, but none became a practical path to human flight.

Multiple groundbreaking studies are rewriting timelines of human evolution, from genetic adaptations over the last 10,000 years to ancient DNA suggesting Neanderthals shared language-related sequences ...

Researchers at almost 100 institutions supported the creation of the Max Planck Institute-funded EVApeCognition Dataset – ...

Elevated homes have been part of Chinese culture since earliest days, showcasing how intercultural interaction fuelled ...