Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously thought, according to a new study ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins ... displayed next to Grace Latimer, 4, to illustrate Lucy's small stature ...

Even creosote-soaked telephone poles wouldn’t last more than 20 years ... the longest lived human artifacts out there,” says Weisman. This story is part of Popular Science’s Ask Us Anything ...

In a report, the CCDH flagged 283 misleading X posts fueling election disinformation spread this year ... notes were displayed in more than an hour. In July, an international NGO that monitors ...

Jupiter Scientific has outlined roughly how many atoms the human body shares with the late bard and Hamlet playwright William Shakespeare.

Throughout much of human history ... should be corrected by skipping leap years in any centurial year not divisible by 400. Gregory decreed that Oct. 4, 1582 would skip directly to Oct. 15 ...

That night a full moon shone across the country, and midway through Game 4 a total lunar ... this role and 20 years later it’s really important I don’t lose sight of the humans that are ...

In a series of announcements late Nov. 22, President-elect Donald Trump shared his nominations for three of the nation's top health positions: CDC director, FDA commissioner and surgeon general. Here ...

Chef Jack Bishop Breaks Down 'The Science ... This year's spike, which started in the spring, is a little different: There's been a significant increase in kids aged 2 to 4 and it is now the ...

Over the next 15 years, 52% of them are expected to experience ... land on Earth is used for food production, the report notes. Humans also are destroying animal populations through climate ...