Genomic data provides evidence for a previously unknown wave of migration, with Indigenous groups living in central and ...

Susan Rigetti is author of three books and a former editor at The New York Times and Slate. She is a contributing Globe ...

For decades, the Borg have dominated Star Trek as the franchise greatest ever villains, but they didn't always make sense.

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When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

Conservations say a Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a human-made canopy bridge to cross a public ...

Doctors stumbled upon a type rarer than “golden blood”—and suspect more patients carry the bizarre genetic anomaly.

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

Researchers updated the global catalogue of human-infective RNA viruses to 239 ICTV-recognised species, incorporating ...

Understanding intelligence in the animal kingdom isn’t as simple as ranking species from most intelligent to least. There’s ...

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 ...