(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

As grids become more distributed, more software-defined and more autonomous, security must evolve accordingly.

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Why are 90% of people right-handed and 10% left-handed? A modification of the well-known fighting hypothesis aims to explain this pattern.

What will humans look like thousands of years from now? Evolution, science, and artificial intelligence could completely ...

The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing how to cook.

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock pressure and shifting sediments pushed and twisted the fossil’s facial bones ...

Vestigial features in humans provide evidence of evolution.

Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't?

Scientists rebuilt the face of “Little Foot,” a 3.67-million-year-old fossil, uncovering new clues about early human ...

Avatar: Fire and Ash won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, and the winning team reflected on their two-decade ...