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When mathematicians revived ignored mathematical structures, they found that overlooked particles, called "neglectons," could complete the quantum computing puzzle.

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on record?

Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than a branching tree.

As experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe and Africa.

Analysis of ancient proteins may fill in the gaps of human evolution left by the decomposition of DNA.

A new study suggests that the mitochondria in human egg cells don't accumulate DNA mutations with age, which sets them apart from other tissues in the body.

An unidentified early hominin fossil that might be a new species confirms that Australopithecus and Homo species lived in the same region of Africa in the same time frame.

A DNA analysis of two people who lived in Britain in the seventh century reveals they had recent African ancestry.

Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of climate change and deforestation, and a new model predicts how that could transpire.

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in the first billion years after the Big Bang, moving one step closer to understanding how early galaxies grow.

Scientists have created the first artificial tongue that can taste, and process flavors entirely in a liquid environment.