The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

A tiny ancient reptile just revealed the moment breathing as we know it began — and it changed life on Earth forever.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, before humans and Neanderthals diverged from a common ancestor, a new study ...

CHENGDU, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have discovered two new lunar minerals from the lunar samples brought back by China's Chang'e-5 mission.

James Webb data reveal pristine gas irradiated by energetic light some 450 million years after the Big Bang — a sign it may ...

Dr Peter Verheyen discusses the transition from quantum-scale events to the emergence of subjective consciousness ...

New genetic results reveal a previously unknown wave of people settled in South America 1,300 years ago and that Indigenous Americans carry remnants of a "ghost lineage." ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

The 12 newly designated geoparks are located in China, France, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, the Russian ...