Why do humans have an appendix? New research is reshaping our understanding of this overlooked organ and its antiquated role ...

Frequent burn exposure may have driven human genetic adaptations that improve healing but worsen severe injury outcomes.

The annual All Things Open conference in Durham drew more than 4,000 attendees, highlighting a major shift from theoretical ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

Several firms use microbes to produce human milk oligosaccharides for infant formula. Could making them in plants unlock a ...

Two new studies from Project CETI provide the most detailed account of a sperm whale birth ever recorded, revealing ...

Animal-borne illnesses that infect humans, known as zoonotic viruses, require little to no evolution before jumping between ...

Flowers are known for their beauty, but biologist David George Haskell argues they are also critical to the diversity of life as we know it.

No one has set foot on the moon since America left in 1972. NASA is heading there again. Will the quest inspire the nation?

Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

Artist’s reconstruction of a myllokunmingiid, the oldest known vertebrate with four eyes on its head.Xiangtong Lei & Sihang Zhang Rare fossils discovered in southern China reveals that the earliest ...