Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape ...

From the caves of Ice Age France to the stone enclosures of southeastern Turkey, a recurring tradition of human animal hybrids hints at trance, costume, and shamanic journeys at the dawn of culture.

Between the ideological fervor that floods social networks and the extreme stances regarding the events that took place in ...

This National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, my Administration renews our commitment to end the evil of human trafficking, restore ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

The Alien franchise has a history of using the same actors for multiple roles. In a universe where androids look human, and ...

Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

A new analysis of some fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking may go back 7 million years in the human family tree.

In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...