"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

While many have been looking forward to the long weekend provided by Human Rights Day, its commemoration should not only ...

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the moon and ...

In August 2021, the world watched as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, sweeping away two decades of progress toward democracy, human rights, and gender equality. While international ...

Studies show that ignoring the data often leads to lost opportunities, poor forecasting and bad investments. However, no matter how digitized business becomes, it still involves a human element.

The new book Memory Lane convincingly demonstrates how memories are like Lego buildings that are constantly being rebuilt.

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

We’ve only just learned that Google Assistant is being replaced with Gemini, and now, it turns out that some features are being quietly retired as a result. Some will be available as part of ...

Utilizing sophisticated analyses grounded in complete genome sequences, researchers at the University of Cambridge have ...

A species’ genome is a sort of manual; when the species perishes, that manual is lost. We are, in this sense, plundering a library—the library of life. Instead of the Anthropocene, Wilson has ...

Years before scientists sequenced the full Neanderthal genome, this skeleton was the one big clue we had that our ancestors were mating ... and it quickly became famous for its 'mosaic' of Neanderthal ...