That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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

For a warmer take on the brown French tip trend, opt for a glossy chestnut polish. It mimics the appearance of suntanned skin ...

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

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

We, humans, treat animals like animals, so why should we be surprised when we treat humans like animals? If only we could bring ourselves to like animals.

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

For many years, scientists thought early humans first learned to make fire on purpose about 50,000 years ago. This idea came mostly from Neanderthal sites in France. Now, new proof from eastern ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...