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

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 ...

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

On your marks. Get set. Bear crawl. The movement of the future is here. And it looks a lot like the movement of the distant ...

Her limited display in Abu Dhabi until March 23 underscores rare international loans, with ownership retained by Ethiopia and ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

The molecular clock theory posits that genetic changes happen steadily and gradually, offering a reliable means for peering into the past and theorizing when complex life first emerged. However, there ...

Walking around upright on two feet is something no other primate does routinely. It seems to be one of the earliest major shifts in the evolutionary path that eventually led to us, modern humans. But ...

Crania, ulnae, and femora of (left to right): a chimpanzee, Sahelanthropus, and Australopithecus. (Courtesy of Scott Williams/NYU and Jason Heaton/University of Alabama Birmingham.) (CN) — The ability ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected. Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a ...