It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status next year. If that happens, the country will enter an era in ...

The study also suggests that an outbreak the size of the one in West Texas earlier this year costs about $12.6 million.

Kennedy has fired experts on the vaccine advisory committee to the CDC and has said, without evidence, that vaccines may cause autism, brain swelling, and death. On Nov. 19, scientific information on ...

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

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov safely returned to Earth, touching ...

Understanding the shape or morphology of neurons and mapping the tree-like branches via which they receive signals from other ...

A new study explores how ancient southern African populations, isolated for nearly 100,000 years, developed distinct genetic traits.

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...