A hand stencil pressed onto the wall of a limestone cave on Muna Island, off the southeast coast of Sulawesi, has been dated ...

Unlike most other animals, humans often favor one hand over the other, but scientists have never known why. Now, however, ...

Normal” now and in the immediate future, health experts say, will likely still include some level of ongoing, fluctuating ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

Scientists extracted proteins from Homo naledi teeth for the first time and found evidence that only females were buried.

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

Earwax isn't dirt — it's an antimicrobial secretion split into two genetic types, tied to hearing loss risk, and able to flag ...

For almost 500 years, historians have been debating what actually caused the deaths of two representatives of one of the most influential Renaissance families, the Medici. Some believed that they were ...

Yale researchers, in collaboration with paleopathologists from the University of Pisa in Italy, analyzed DNA from the ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have now uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

Scientists explore whether humor influenced language evolution, suggesting "survival of the wittiest" shaped communication ...