As the mercury plummets and back-to-work blues set in for much of humankind in the UK, many other creatures are cosily spending winter in a blissfully dormant state of hibernation. It would be easy to ...

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 ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate cluttered spaces, and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...

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 ...

Daniel Mills 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 their ...

Kissing occurred around 21.5 to 16.9 million years ago, the researchers said. Stories have long been swapped on awkward first kisses and princesses smooching frogs, but a new study suggests the ...

The patient is an older adult with underlying health conditions. A Washington state resident has tested positive for bird flu, marking the first human case confirmed in the U.S. in nine months. The ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving our brain growth and facial flattening. By comparing 3D models of ape skulls ...

Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking. While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the ...

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.