On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Life on Earth has made several “great leaps” in its evolutionary history: from unicellularity to multicellularity, from sea to land, and from land into the skies. What if the next one lies beyond our ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. In a paper published in the Oxford ...

What if scientists created the next human species? Explore how evolution might be accelerated in the lab and the ethical questions it raises. Former Hill staffer charged for allegedly staging her own ...

Living on the water is not such a new idea. Civilizations have done it before, and Venice is an incredible demonstration of human know-how for settling in an environment not designed for the purpose.