Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old.Read More

The discovery clashes with the traditional image of humans evolving on the savannas of East Africa.Read More

The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect health.Read More

A new study suggests that the NOVA1 gene may have been a key player in the evolution of human language.Read More

In 19th-century France, the young chemist challenged the theory of spontaneous generation and discovered an invisible world of airborne microbes.Read More

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and Read More

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the Read More

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light Read More

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees.Read More

A new study is “a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the Read More