Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

Research suggests that expressing gratitude can benefit the body in several ways. In the brain, it can lower levels of the ...

This creates a powerful loop: a negative thought enters the brain, and, due to its distressing contents, the brain signals ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

The human brain grew from a survival machine into the most complex organ on Earth—fueling language, culture, and technology.

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Clear out your shelves for a bumper new crop of books by authors including Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Xand Van Tulleken, ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual ...

A new study comparing stroke survivors with healthy adults reveals that post-stroke language disorders stem not from slower ...

Scientists warn that the human Y chromosome has lost most of its genes over millions of years, and new research suggests ...

Researchers believe the location served as a hunter-gatherer camp frequented by homo heidelbergensis, an early human ancestor ...