Human evolution: no pause in sight A team at Harvard, led by Ali Akbari, has just turned a key assumption in science upside ...

Every time a virus invades a person, it collides with thousands of years of human history. A study led by researchers at the ...

Two complementary Northwestern University studies found that mice can perform a single intentional sniff, while humans use brain rhythms that closely resemble those seen in rapidly sniffing rodents.

Modern humans carry DNA from two mysterious extinct lineages in addition to Neanderthals and Denisovans. Their hidden genetic ...

For most of human history, a water source containing high concentrations of arsenic would have been considered deadly.

The curious minds at What If explore what the world would look like if humans walked on all fours.

The fact that monkeys can keep "pets" or even raise other species could hint at the evolutionary origins of empathy.

Ant parenting may have evolved from the same brain systems that once controlled hunger. Researchers found that two chemical ...

Weak necks, soft spots, and underdeveloped brains make our babies much less independent than other great apes.

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of ...

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Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.