Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

DNA from living descendants of relatives have allowed four members of the ill-fated Franklin expedition to be identified.

The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...

NASA says that during the long time it spent working on Mars, the Curiosity managed to fracture and separate the upper layers ...

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary ...

Scientists wanted to know why the chatter of Alston’s singing mice sounds so much like human conversation. What they found ...

Anthony "Black Alien" Loffredo has returned to the extreme body modification game with a new set of facial scarification that ...

Some sci-fi writers are skilled enough to carefully build an intricate world across sagas spanning ten or more books.

The University of Arizona is opening a new exhibit this weekend that explores one of humanity's most enduring questions: Are ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to ...

He’s also behind “Legion,” taking on the X-Men universe.

Hard sci-fi focuses on scientific accuracy, and movies like Primer and Arrival prove that this grounded approach can still ...