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 ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

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

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East Africa, then spread south later. It’s clean, familiar, and easy to repeat.

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. Scientists are calling this ...

Rapid deployment of renewable energy has reduced emissions but introduced new operational challenges. Solar and wind power ...

The ideas presented in George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan's The Neural Mind are fascinating, but the writing is far less ...

Scientists chart a comprehensive cell atlas of the developing human reproductive system, offering new clues into congenital disorders.

The analysis revealed that about 2 per cent of sperm from men in their early 30s contained disease-causing mutations. That ...

Eight Cambridge researchers have been awarded a total of €17 million in funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe ...