A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150,000 years ago adapted to the bitter cold by developing a ...

Humans can only see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum. Here’s why evolution may have intentionally hidden ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

A new study, published in Ecology and Evolution, shows that social living is associated with longer lifespan, but also that the benefits of sociality level off once animals move beyond living in pairs ...

Brain size and bipedalism are the most likely drivers of our species’ right-hand dominance, according to new research ...

A staggering 90% of humanity, regardless of culture and location, is right-handed. New study looks at how this can be.

Leaders in food-system applications of AI say the past year has brought whiplash-inducing transformations across the value ...

Artificial intelligence has the potential to vastly improve many of the services banks deliver. It should be viewed as a ...

Every human voice is acoustically unique. The anatomy and evolutionary history behind that fact turns out to be one of ...

Humans are overwhelmingly right-handed, but scientists have long struggled to explain why no other primate species shows ...

A large wildfire has burned nearly a third of Santa Rosa Island in California’s Channel Islands National Park — an area home ...

The hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship has created a global public health crisis. But the driver of it is ...