Natural selection has been playing a bigger role in changing modern human DNA than previously thought, according to a new study. geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 Many people are familiar with ...

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of Africa, rather than from a single birthplace. Until now, however, most ...

The big-idea explorers at Aperture dive into why humans dream and what these nightly journeys reveal about the mind. Iran’s Supreme Leader no longer reigns supreme Louisiana mayor arrested by attorney ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Among the many other human species that once inhabited ...

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Before Neanderthals and Denisovans, before Homo erectus, before Lucy and other australopiths, who was the ancestor that gave rise to human evolution? Fossils of hominoids that lived during the Early ...

BEIJING, April 3 (Reuters) - China's cyberspace regulator issued draft regulations on Friday to oversee the development online of digital humans, requiring clear labelling and banning services that ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts are on their way to the moon. NASA’s colossal Space Launch ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans have blasted off toward the moon. Four astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft launched on April 1 at 6:35 p.m. from the Kennedy Space Center in ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another. By Emily Anthes In the waning days of the ...

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago. Two new genetic analyses combed the archaeological record for domestic dogs ...