UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

That’s the compelling argument made by Caleb Scharf—author and senior scientist for astrobiology at NASA Ames Research in ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. In a paper published in the Oxford ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

Not all of the uber-rich are believers in space travel, though. Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, told James Corden ...