With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

The Out of Africa theory describes how early human species evolved in Africa before migrating across Eurasia and beyond. This episode explains the multiple migration waves, the role of climate change, ...

This video takes you behind the scenes of creating a zombie parkour film inspired by State of Survival. It shows how parkour ...

Some experts think “xenobot” cells that reorganize themselves after death signify a form of consciousness—while others ...

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, ...

“Focus on twavel, welationships and twacking down dat waskily wabbit.” – Elmer Fudd reading his horoscope. I have decided to bone up on how the study of planetary cycles guide us towards a more ...

Opinion Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are trumped by accountancy's First Law of Finance: you must make money. iRobot, the ...

Dr Sumedha Kotwal [email protected] Humanity has always looked upward and inward, seeking meaning, purpose, and ...

Halafian culture arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, displaying one of the earliest ...

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

The Salawusu site in Ordos, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Photo: IC. Featuring more than 400 animal fossils, a new ...

Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're ...