Alzheimer’s disease has long been the nightmare diagnosis that medicine could slow at best, not stop. Now a wave of ...

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

For generations, schoolchildren have been taught that humans navigate the world with just five senses: sight, hearing, smell, ...

It would be easy to envy bats, bears and hedgehogs their seasonal torpor, but research has suggested that humans once ...

New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.

All of us are familiar with the 5 traditional senses, but according to a recent study, we may actually have a new sense right ...

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. If the trial is successful, the ...

Humans have spent centuries shaping the world. But nature wouldn’t hesitate to take over if we suddenly disappeared.

Researchers have found traces of what appears to be plant-derived poison on tiny stone arrowheads from South Africa dated to ...