A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

Democratic board member muted during Kennedy Center vote sues to remove Trump's name The US military is weird about hands in pockets, and the rules are all over the place Public release of Epstein ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

The Anunnaki myth has inspired centuries of speculation about gods, aliens, and ancient civilizations. This episode separates archaeological evidence from popular reinterpretations, examining what ...

Ancient Greek mythology is full of bestiality, including Zeus turning into a swan to seduce Leda, and Poseidon cursing Pasiphaë into falling in love with a bull. A new discovery in Israel, however, ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became. Scientists studying ancient teeth found that early humans, great apes, and even ...

One day, bottles of probiotics might do more than keep you regular -- they could help prevent disease. To get there, a $2 million grant to UC Riverside will explore how gut bacteria shape human health ...

This blog post was authored by B. Sanborn, Design Research Leader, DLR Group. In an era dominated by screens, virtual meetings, and hybrid schedules, it’s tempting to assume the value of physical ...