The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Clarity over credentials shapes books that rethink human behaviour, emotion, and decision-making without academic distance or ...

In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a spacecraft and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an injured astronaut to remove a life-threatening blood clot from his brain.

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

To ask whether Indians are "too conservative" in their dress sense is not to pass judgment, but to open a dialogue about how ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

Recent research shows that swearing can actually change how much pain people can handle. A 2024 review looked at studies on ...

Research suggests that expressing gratitude can benefit the body in several ways. In the brain, it can lower levels of the ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...