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

Scientists have been working for years to create robots powered by living muscle tissue. These biohybrid robots combine ...

In 1992, a Wyoming man finally opened a footlocker left to him by a friend years earlier. Inside was a human skeleton wrapped ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds.

John Westbrooke sees a British painter who mingled the Enlightenment and the darkly Gothic There’s a lot going on in Joseph Wright’s “The Air Pump”, the 1768 centrepiece of the latest ...