Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds of millennia — preserving rare genetic variants that still exist today.

Researchers at National Taiwan University have uncovered, for the first time at atomic resolution, how the human proteasome ...

For 300,000 years, the natural world has been a source of security, warmth and nurturance. That may be why being in it improves our health, write two CNY psychologists.

The United States is in the middle of a storm, the tempest from which it will not emerge until the end of the decade. It’s ...

The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.

Smriti Dixit's latest solo show, Whispered Continuum, at Art Alive Gallery in New Delhi, is awash with these. Coiled ...

India, Nov. 30 -- Anything that flies - be it in the realm of nature or mythology or technology or pure fantasy- lends itself ...

It’s common practice for farms to cull rams — male sheep — that refuse to mate with ewes — their female counterparts. This ...

Author Erica Watson’s collection of essays includes impressions from her time working at Denali and her travels around the ...

Optical illusions reveal personality by mirroring thought patterns and emotional tendencies. The image presented, a black-and ...

Globalization, migration, climate change and war—nation states are currently under huge pressure on many fronts.

Autoimmune diseases misidentify parts of the body as a threat. Dehumanization mirrors this error. Here's why we dismiss ...