Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

A small team of computational and evolutionary biologists from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...

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Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most ...

"I'm not aware of any measure you can make of the human brain where the male and female distributions don't overlap," ...

A common interest in language unites social scientists and natural language processing (NLP) researchers. While both fields leverage the strong connection between language and behavior, social ...

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed Lapedo Child remains shows that remains of a child with both human and ...

Science skepticism is rising. Learn why people distrust science—and how to think critically in a world full of misinformation ...

Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for Stand Up for Science, a rally in response to President Trump’s ...

A new article expands our understanding of sensory neurons in the tentacles of sea anemones, linking them to kidney disease in humans through a common gene.

Rallies brought together leading researchers, former administrators and people who benefitted from medical advances.