Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...

DNA from ancient humans has been found on a prehistoric cave painting and on cave walls, demonstrating the potential to one ...

A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved.

SummaryRFIC design is a complex “dark art” that limits progress in wireless technologies like 5G, autonomous vehicles, and satellite communications. Princeton researchers use reinforcement learning ...

Analysis of 27 genomes reveals more diverse, better-connected populations and challenges the idea that genetic decline caused ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

What if a single sentence could carry two completely different meanings, one when read forward and another when read backward ...

A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

For more than a century, human origins have been told as a story of expansion, migration, and survival. But deep in that story sits a long, quiet stretch when almost nothing seems to happen.

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.