This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

The person was an older adult with underlying health conditions, officials said. The first human to have ever been infected with the H5N5 strain of bird flu has died, Washington state health officials ...

What Makes Us Human? is a biweekly column from Emi Sakamoto ’28. Sakamoto investigates the question to better understand human-centered meaning in the midst of a rapidly evolving artificial landscape.

I first became aware of the phrase “human design” while watching the second season of Love is Blind UK earlier this year. In the show, one of the castmates, Patrick Justus, repeatedly said he was ...

Michelle Spear does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Venice: As this year's festival comes to a close, this poignant film partially set in an empty theater serves as a fitting palate cleanser. As this year’s Biennale approached its conclusion, its ...

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 ...

Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are closely related to chimps, the slight differences in ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on record? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Sheriff's deputies arrested an alleged prankster on Monday and accused him of planting a creepy teddy bear that looked like it was made of bloody human tissue, officials said. Hector Corona Villanueva ...

Twenty years ago, something happened when Pablo Peña sat in Prof. Gary Becker’s doctoral-level course at the University of Chicago. As the economist lectured on human capital theory, a concept he’d ...

According to three Stanford scientists, lack of human biological material is a “major bottleneck to progress” for medical research. A steadily growing idea is one known as “bodyoids”—biological ...