Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Experts told Newsweek the books that are best for nurturing the virtues of kindness, courage and respect in boys.

BISMARCK — The North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services is reducing some of its child care subsidies for working ...

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

The funds will go to the government's Invest America plan. In a major philanthropic move, billionaires Michael and Susan Dell are donating $6.25 billion to deposit $250 into savings accounts for up to ...

That resourceful "trash panda" digging through your garbage may be more than just a nuisance -- it could be a living example of evolution in progress. A new study suggests that raccoons living near ...

In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative. Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, ...

In 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team were combing the desert landscape of Burtele, a paleontological site in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, when Stephanie Melillo found something remarkable: an ...

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

Sharf holds a CMOS-based microelectrode array chip used to precisely locate the electrical activity of single neurons within millimeter-sized organoid tissue. Humans have long wondered when and how we ...