Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly ...

This concept paper contributes to the broader thinking underway for the 2026 Human Development Report, which will explore ...

When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.

Scientists have discovered what may be one of the oldest boomerangs in the world, hidden in a Polish cave for tens of ...

A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis has documented, for the first time, humpback whales producing large bubble rings, like a human smoker blowing ...

Sophistication Finally, sophistication. AIs can consider more factors in their decisions than humans can, and this can endow them with superhuman performance on specialized tasks. Computers have ...

Ecological flexibility, not tools or genes, explains why only one migration out of Africa succeeded around 50,000 years ago.

But understanding the fossils’ true place in the human story required solidly dating the site, and that was a tricky task, since precise dating requires knowing which rock layer entombed a given ...

Global podcast studio Wondery is diving into the controversial world of artificial intelligence romance with its latest ...