A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

The male-determining sex chromosome has lost 97 percent of its ancestral genes in the last 300 million years. If that rate ...

Almost 8,000 animal species could be pushed closer to extinction by the end of this century as the interacting effects of ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

In a New York operating room one day in October 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

The question is not whether ‘art’ or ‘human creativity’ will survive AI but whether the civilisation that deployed AI still ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add ...