By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

Our brains evolved for complex thought and language - but the same genes that made us smarter may have increased mental illness risk.

From Australopithecus to Homo sapiens, this video explores how humans evolved across millions of years of adaptation, ...

Fossil records and archaeological findings suggest a correlation between the two, but they do not yet provide definitive proof that the evolution of the brain and hands was directly linked in a ...

Although the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015 gets a lot of press, the detection of GW170817—the first binary neutron star collision—confirms how important gravitational waves likely are ...