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Human Evolution
If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.
Evolutionary pressures drove the formation of tribes who encoded their values in myths and symbols. Was this cooperation cursed?
Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?
The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally.
Nobody knows where the word "penguin" comes from.
Left-handed humans were likelier to get stabbed in the heart.
How humans came to feel comfortable among strangers, like those in a café, is an under-explored mystery.
John Templeton Foundation
Science isn't synonymous with technology; it's about a way of thinking.
Most male mammals have little or nothing to do with their kids. Why is our own species different?
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of "The Immortality Key," unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
Researchers discovered something modern humans had never before seen—a flashy Neanderthal horn collection.
A new discovery pushes back the origin of these technologies by about 40,000 years.
This is your brain on work.
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
Human thinking is antiquated.
A wide-scale examination of early Neolithic human skeletons reveals the violent history of a supposedly peaceful period.
Video games matter. Their continued technological and artistic development is reshaping the way we satisfy our ancient need to tell stories.
Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
Some objects were softer than others.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
We are still new at this.
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use assume potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice.
The genes responsible for facial features may also influence behavior.
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
About 8% of our genome is made of leftover viruses from our ancestors' infections.