The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” That was Karl Marx, but it could as easily have ...

Sample helped to plot Cage’s trajectory toward the outer limits of art. He also made an impression on Hay, who, in his 1996 ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

A new study suggests that the people who reach the pinnacle of their fields typically dabbled in multiple disciplines when ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

George Bailey dove into icy water to save an angel—and saved himself. Research explains why: Altruism activates the brain's ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

Sara Stover has more than 20 years of experience as a writer and editor, most recently covering home financing and the luxury real estate market for Hawaii Life Real Estate Brokers. She's also written ...

Like the old saying goes, when the going gets tough, the tough get going. But even the toughest people still need encouragement every now and again. If you’ve encountered setbacks in pursuit of your ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.