Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

Geneticist and entrepreneur Adrian Woolfson argues that genome engineering and AI will let us design organisms beyond nature’s limits ...

Ambica Rajagopal shares on the CAIO Connect Podcast that India must shift its mindset, invest in research, & build ...

Will humanity extend into the far future? It's likely many of us think it should. The problem is that each of us, individually and collectively, act otherwise—we are destroying the environment and ...

Dr. Marcus Coplin, a naturopathic medical doctor and the medical director of The Springs Resort in Colorado and Murrieta Hot Springs Resort in California, has released a new white paper titled Future ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

Abstract: Wildfires have become increasingly frequent and severe, posing significant threats to the resilience of power systems. Wildfire-induced power outages disrupt essential services, triggering ...

The team calculated that the mosquitos likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some 2.9 to 1.6 million years ago. This overlaps with the same period in which ...

In what ways does AI need humanity, and how can we define what makes us unique and essential in the face of this strange new technology?

These three connected stories about the whole of human history can’t quite sustain the necessary emotional heft.

Some animals are evolving faster than scientists previously thought possible, due to climate change. We can too.