Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

By Daaji We often think of evolution as a slow, chromosomal crawl, but modern neuroscience is beginning to confirm what yogis ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

He provided the first convincing evidence that cancerous tumors develop from a single mutated cell and later helped expose ...

Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell.

Their bodies and their genomes were built in the lab from scratch, each molecule specified precisely. According to John Glass ...

Is there really such a thing as human nature? The answer lies between two old extremes, and getting it right shapes how we face AI, authoritarianism, and climate.

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

Analysis of ancient proteins extracted from the fossilized teeth of Homo naledi has revealed a startling new twist in the ...