Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Your laughter might be older than you think! A new study reveals that the rhythmic pattern of human laughter has remained ...

Some of life's most valuable lessons do not come from success, comfort, or happiness. They come from disappointment, failure, ...

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of the oldest arguments in human origins unsettled: were Neanderthals following ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, still reshapes how scientists explain human evolution nearly 50 years ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping relationships by providing conversation and companionship, and reshaping how people work ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human populations in Oceania, filling a major gap in representation in genomics ...

Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

Medical breakthroughs, side effects of AI use, and histories of the natural world feature among this season’s science titles.