The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

A fossil from Egypt hints we may have been looking in the wrong place for ape origins. A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, ...

A visionary evolutionary biologist, he drew comparisons to Charles Darwin with his theories on the genetic roots of seemingly ...

A fossil found in northern Egypt from a new species, Masripithecus moghraensis, is changing long held ideas about ape and human origins.

Scientists have confirmed using full genome analysis that dogs were already living as human companions over 14,000 years ago.

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...

Several firms use microbes to produce human milk oligosaccharides for infant formula. Could making them in plants unlock a ...

Animal-borne illnesses that infect humans, known as zoonotic viruses, require little to no evolution before jumping between ...

In the intricate machinery of the inner ear, hearing begins with a protein that moves a few billionths of a meter up to ...

The legal profession has historically resisted technological disruption due to its reliance on human judgment, precedent, and nuance. However, advances in artificial intelligence - particularly ...

Geneticists are pushing back the timeline of when people first domesticated dogs in Europe. Using the DNA from over 200 ...