Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the ...

Published in the Journal of Human Evolution, the research reexamines scavenging through the lens of optimal foraging theory, ...

New imaging has upended a decades-old assumption about Japan’s earliest “humans.” The finding doesn’t erase the past—it ...

Archaeologists in Ukraine uncovered 400,000-year-old ivory tools, the oldest ever found. Long before Homo sapiens existed, early human species shaped ivory into points and cores, revealing unexpected ...

The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over millions of years. It comprises an axial skeleton, which consists of the skull and the spine, as well as an ...

The College of Education & Human Development has introduced a new undergraduate course, HDFS 205: Stress Management in Adulthood, as part of its ongoing efforts to equip students with research-based, ...

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Are AI tools eliminating marketing jobs? Yale study finds zero displacement after 33 months despite high exposure scores. Yale researchers report no discernible AI-driven job disruption at the economy ...

The brain-computer interface developer Precision Neuroscience has put forward a study detailing the experiences of its first human patients—showing its minimally invasive approach is capable of both ...

Scientists have made a landmark breakthrough that enables the creation of viable human egg cells from a skin cell, new research claims. The study, published in Nature Communications, detailed how US ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to prosthetic limbs, ...