Evolutionary biology is the study of the natural history of life, and humans have always been fascinated by our history. In previous eras, cultures developed various creation myths to explain our ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans being nourished by their protein-rich milk and clothed by warm ...

China will host the world's first half-marathon race between humans and robots. Dozens of humanoid robots are expected to join the 21km (13-mile) race in Beijing in April, according to local media.

The auricular muscles helped change the shape of the shell–or pinna–of the ear and helped humans living millions of years ago listen closely. They are still used by roughly 10 to 20 percent of ...

When humans return to the same place to do the same things time after time, we can hypothesise that they are maintaining a record of past deeds and are planning to do them again on a day that has ...

Some believe it marks the beginning of the end for human translators, while others see this as the opening up of a new world of possibilities to bring more literature to even more people.

As scientists continue to uncover more human species, their discoveries complicate our image of Homo sapiens. Gurche’s models, which rely on fossil bones, help bring ancient humans into focus.

But scientists have long assumed that bacteria can’t survive in the human brain. The powerful blood-brain barrier, the thinking goes, keeps the organ mostly free from outside invaders.

In western society, many people expect to sleep alone, if not with a romantic partner. But as with other group-living animals, human cosleeping is common, despite some cultural and age-related ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

(And by "huge" I mean really, really huge—possibly the biggest capital investments the human race has ever undertaken.) If that assumption is false and it can be done much more cheaply ...