In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...

New research suggests upright walking and brain growth shaped human right-handedness. This evolutionary process began when ...

Humans evolved from ape-like ancestors because they needed to run long distances – perhaps to hunt animals or scavenge carcasses on Africa's vast savannah – and the ability to run shaped our anatomy, ...

About 90 per cent of humans across all cultures favour their right hand for tasks, and this dominance of right-handedness may have started when early human ancestors began walking on two legs, a new ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

Snakes are everywhere in our legends and mythology. Yet for most of us, our blood runs cold whenever we encounter these ...

Børnich, a forty-two-year-old Norwegian, has been obsessed with robots since he was a child. His firm used to be called Halodi, and it sold wheeled security robots from offices south of Oslo. But in ...

300,000 units. According to the author, a former senior curator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, this is the estimated number of items typically found in American households. He argues that ...

Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared similar survival strategies, stone tool technologies and symbolic traditions ...

Synthetic DNA providers are asking for enforceable biosecurity screening rules. Congress should give them some.

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