About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration. By Carl Zimmer Geography is one of the things that sets ...

Will a human ever celebrate a 150th birthday? You bet, says Stephen Austad, a biology of ageing researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Austad is so sure that life expectancy is poised ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

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A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species nicknamed the "hobbit," a new study finds. When you purchase through links on ...

Could humans live on Ceres someday? Consider the possibilities of colonizing the dwarf planet in our solar system. New disclosures show Trump bought bonds affected by government policy changes The ...

In a recent discussion, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates shared a thought-provoking prediction about the future of work. He believes that advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will likely ...