Researchers say they have discovered an entirely new class of life inside the human body, and it is very similar to a virus.

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared ... “That flowstone took thousands of years to form, but the sediment flooded in here in ...

On January 14, hippies and other counterculture participants swarmed to the polo grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in a gathering called the Human Be-In. Timothy Leary advised ...

Now, one theorist warns that the human civilization of 8.2 billion people is at a critical junction: teetering between what he forecasts will be authoritarian collapse and superabundance.

The Human Fear is their fantastic tribute to misspent youth and an even more dissolute adulthood. This scene has retroactively gotten tagged as “indie sleaze,” which absolutely nobody said at ...

Human brains take in sensory data at more than 1 billion bits per second, but only process that information at a measly 10 bits per second, new research has found. When you purchase through links ...

In a few decades, gene-editing technologies could reduce the likelihood of common human diseases. Societies must use this time to prepare for their arrival. Read the paper: Heritable polygenic ...

From virtual assistants that can hold conversations with natural intonation to digital avatars that replicate human facial expressions, AI is becoming more human-like in its appearance and behavior.