The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Humans stand out among mammals for our ability to run long distances without falling apart. That ability links back to early ...

Summary: A global study of vertebrates reveals that body temperature is the key driver behind brain size evolution.

Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal announced on Saturday a personal investment of $25 million to launch Continue Research, a ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

A giraffe's long legs aren't just for height, they save energy by reducing how hard the heart works to pump blood upward ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

Saul Van Beurden brings an engineering-led mindset to modernization and a conviction that technology is foundational to every ...