In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

Scientists say they've made a key breakthrough that would allow robots to figure out complex tasks on their own, but experts ...

Humans really are everywhere. More than any other vertebrate species, we have managed to quickly spread across the planet and take control of it. From the sweltering heat of the desert to the freezing ...

A female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquito takes a blood meal from a host. For millennia, this mosquito has spread malaria.

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

In his beautifully written, wide-ranging, and impeccably researched book Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind, acclaimed author Michael Bond carefully traces how we, humans, arrived at where we ...

A long-shared history links humans and dogs, a relationship that began more than 15,000 years ago when early wolves sought food and shelter near human settlements and gradually adapted to life ...

The question many mark: Will AI replace us, or more accurately, will some human beings replace others with AI? The corollary: What, if anything, makes humans irreplaceable? As artificial intelligence ...