Alzheimer’s disease has long been the nightmare diagnosis that medicine could slow at best, not stop. Now a wave of ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

It would be easy to envy bats, bears and hedgehogs their seasonal torpor, but research has suggested that humans once ...

For generations, schoolchildren have been taught that humans navigate the world with just five senses: sight, hearing, smell, ...

All of us are familiar with the 5 traditional senses, but according to a recent study, we may actually have a new sense right ...

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.

Learn about the overlap between archaic humans that once lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the modern humans ...

Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. If the trial is successful, the ...

Humans have spent centuries shaping the world. But nature wouldn’t hesitate to take over if we suddenly disappeared.

Researchers have found traces of what appears to be plant-derived poison on tiny stone arrowheads from South Africa dated to ...