Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

Researchers in the Raman Lab at UW recently published a study discussing sending microbes into space at the International ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...