Within the vastness of the Universe, humanity is not that big of a deal. We're not here because we're meant to be here, we're ...

We humans like to think we’re special in basically all ways, but if the history of life is any indication, our species has a ...

A living frog, so the parable goes, is placed in a pot of water that is being slowly heated. If the frog is put into boiling water, it will jump out. If the frog is put in tepid water which is then ...

Very few people live beyond a century. So, if no one had babies anymore, there would probably be no humans left on Earth within 100 years. But first, the population would shrink as older folks died ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any old ...

A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, sequencing 1,000 species of butterflies and moths. This includes ...