New research suggests at least some key distinctions date back earlier than previously estimated, hinting that modern and ...

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

In the first decades of the 21st century, NASA’s Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon, thanks to international partnerships.

A new study by biologists from the Scripps Research Institute shows that a bird flu virus is just a single mutation away from having human-ready receptors. If the H5N1 virus does make the switch ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists ...

These species, were bipedal and close relatives of modern humans. They lived in parts of Northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, while the first populations of modern humans, Homo sapiens, lived in the ...

Oldest modern human genomes sequenced Genomes of seven early Europeans show they belonged to a small, isolated group that had recently mixed with Neanderthals but left no present-day descendants ...

A man beside the skeleton of archelon. Screenshot from Archelon: The Largest Turtle Ever To Have Lived Source: YouTube Channel: Earth 2.0 Full skeleton of Archelon the prehistoric turtle. Screenshot ...

But even with all those advances humans still can’t help but place robots in bizarre and uncomfortable situations. This year, researchers took advanced robots and had them clean up karate ...