Homo sapiens has existed for at least 300,000 years, but its exact origin is still unknown. Some theories say that it evolved in East Africa about 50,000 years ago and expanded southwards, but now a ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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

“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 ...

They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after declining rainfall levels forced them to compete with modern humans, among ...

“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...

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

December might be the last month of the year, but it doesn't mean you can't read something that genuinely changes the way you ...