Evolution has given humans countless unique features, but one body part stands out as an unsolved puzzle: the human chin.

Human babies are born remarkably helpless, a deliberate evolutionary advantage. This early dependence allows for extended brain development outside t ...

There’s a reason why ancient wisdom never truly grows old. Long before science tried to trace the journey of life through ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest ...

TESLA has Optimus and Xpeng has Iron. Both humanoid robots are common in concept but very different in execution. Clearly, in ...

As the world tuned in to her memorial service, streamed live by the Jane Goodall Institute, we not only remembered Jane—we ...

The brain wants peace and predictability, but dopamine drives us to seek out and solve new problems. We’re built to be ...

When Ella al-Shamahi went to college, she thought she'd be able to prove Darwin's theory of evolution was wrong. Instead, she was convinced the science was right.

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

Deep within the world's oceans lurk marine bacteria armed with plastic-munching enzymes, their evolution seemingly sculpted ...

If your parents' bone repair genes never turn on, you still inherit them, and you heal. But if they don't teach you to ski, ...

Many climate scientists call our current epoch the “Anthropocene” — the first human-driven climate era. Many technologists ...