Counter to today's depictions of cave-dwellers feasting on raw meat, early relatives of present-day humans ate little or no meat, according to new research. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for ...

Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our ...

Many new names sounded as if they’d been cooked up by a medieval monk. HIV-1 would henceforth be known as Lentivirus ...

For decades, the dominant hypothesis on human origin has been the "out of Africa" theory, which holds that modern humans first appeared in southern Africa around 50,000 years ago and then migrated ...

Citizens of global powers are upbeat about a second Trump presidency – but this is by no means universal, particularly among ...

Cyberpunk fiction combines the old and the new. Drawing from the conflicted worlds of film noir, cyberpunk films continue to ...

Learn how it was framed as a battle over the teaching of evolution, but the participants didn’t see it quite that way.

But for milestone anniversaries, consider the centennial of the 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial,” a watershed ... state law that banned the teaching of evolution in public schools.

Understanding these mechanisms provides insight into the evolution of visual processing ... including humans. Even monkeys and human infants who have never encountered a snake react to pictures ...

RTX Corporation has just won a $946.4 million contract from the US Army for the Patriot missile system hardware, software, and services. The company is a major contractor when it comes to the army ...