Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

In January 2026, RoboParty launched ROBOTO ORIGIN’s full-stack open-source on GitHub alongside a global developer co-creation ...

This world-famous fossil is now on display in Abu Dhabi, allowing visitors to see up close one of the most important finds in ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

China’s humanoid robot Bolt hit 10 m/s (22.4 mph), tripling the 4 m/s record, showing what faster leg design can achieve.

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

It is highly likely that Hume and Smith were acquainted with speciation. Here we suggest that Hume and Smith were proto-​Darwinian on human evolution. The idea of Hume and Smith as discreet ...

The bad news is that our roads are not going to be sober shared spaces without the government earning the people’s trust.

A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most ...

Before Homo sapiens appeared as a result of evolution, nature had made numerous attempts to create intelligent beings, with varying degrees of success.

If you want safe robots, then they need to talk to each other, explains a robotics innovator. What’s behind this counter-intuitive idea?

When the Chicxulub impactor hit, the animals that had the best chance of surviving turned out to be those with wings. See how new finds are reshaping the story of how birds evolved.