Leggy and sharp-eyed, Common Grackles (along with their larger, showier relatives, Great-tailed Grackles and Boat-tailed ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has edited its website to remove facts about how human activity drives climate change, ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tweaked its pages to focus on the "natural processes" driving the climate crisis - ...

Human Rights Day on December 10 marks the UN’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, spotlighting global ...

Ashoka Mody critiques Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian's "A Sixth of Humanity," highlighting its flawed economic ...

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 ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...