Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information ...

A sweeping new genetic analysis suggests that humans living in southern Africa spent roughly 100,000 years in isolation, long ...

Scientists at Radboud University say the universe will fade out far sooner than once believed, not in 10¹¹⁰⁰ years, but in ...

When Meenu Hodiwalla gave birth to her son almost three decades ago, she imagined the early days unfolding like they do for most new parents - tiny fingers curling around hers, the baby's eyes ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Developing new drugs is one of the riskiest and most expensive endeavors in science. Today, The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) ...

Many psychiatric disorders share symptoms and most people who receive a psychiatric diagnosis will be diagnosed with more ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

Scientists sequenced genomes from 28 individuals dated between 225 and 10,275 years old. These remains came from regions ...

New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies ...

A new study uses sibling genetics to compare monogamy across species. Humans score higher than expected and sit close to ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...