In new experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS), microbiologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

The person was an older adult with underlying health conditions, officials said. The first human to have ever been infected with the H5N5 strain of bird flu has died, Washington state health officials ...

Stories centered around true love's kiss might be tales as old as time. And, according to a new study, kisses might even have been around before humans walked the earth. Humans kiss each other ...

For humans, kissing holds major cultural cachet, accompanying confessions of romantic love, religious rituals of reverence and even betrayals, à la The Godfather Part II’s “kiss of death.” New ...

Michael A. Little does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Great AI doesn’t happen in isolation. These UX strategies — from confidence scores to graceful error recovery — turn users into active collaborators. The AI ...

Durham University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

Longtime Dallas fine-diners may recognize the name Joe Palladino. He had his hands in the creation of Nick & Sam’s, and Coal Vines, and will soon open a Dallas outpost of his New York City restaurant ...

Humans of New York, the viral social media project documenting the lives of every day New Yorkers, is taking over the historic Grand Central Terminal in New York City in a "first-of-its-kind immersive ...