Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

Scientists analyze fossils and vocal tract models to reconstruct what prehistoric humans may have sounded like millions of years ago.

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

Learn how advanced scanning and 3D reconstruction revealed the face of the Little Foot fossil and new insights into Australopithecus and early human evolution in Africa.

A new digital reconstruction of the face of the 3.67‑million‑year‑old Australopithecus fossil, Little Foot, provides new insight into the evolution of the human face.  The new findings, published ...

Rachael Seidler receives funding from NASA. Tianyi Wang received funding from NASA. The extent of these changes was greater for those who spent longer in space. As NASA plans longer space missions, ...

A team of experts have found a tooth in Ethiopia which may rewrite our human family tree and forever alter our understanding of where we came from.

Scientists still don’t know how the brain turns physical activity into thoughts, feelings, and awareness—but a powerful new tool may help crack the mystery. Researchers at MIT are exploring ...

Pass the pot to Grandma — her brain might thank you. A new study is challenging long-held assumptions about cannabis, finding that middle-aged and older adults who use the drug may actually see some ...

A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to new research. Surprisingly, it wasn’t memory or problem-solving tasks that ...

BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports ...