Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...

Learn more about the origins of language, and how our ancient ancestors may have developed it in a sudden jump rather than over time. When did humans first develop language? People who study this ...

Brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies developed independently for 50 years to restore sight and touch are functionally identical, establishing a unified framework that accelerates ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species ...

A new analysis supports the previously overlooked "brain lag" hypothesis—the idea that, in some primate lineages, the evolution of larger body size preceded the evolution of larger brain size—while ...

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...

Exploring these differences formed the crux of a new study that documented laughing patterns between primates — a very ...

Børnich, a forty-two-year-old Norwegian, has been obsessed with robots since he was a child. His firm used to be called ...

The study compared laughter from four orangutans, two gorillas, three bonobos, four chimpanzees, and four human children, ...

July 2, 2026 A pioneering climate scientist is challenging a U.S. government report that cited his research while reaching what he says is the exact opposite conclusion. Benjamin Santer and his ...

This silly supernatural thriller about a fiendish shape shifter leaves coherence and clarity behind. By Erik Piepenburg Before the presidency. Before Yorktown. There was … George, the land surveyor.

Archaeology Human Evolution 'A weird result from an already weird hominin': Archaeologists discover all Homo naledi skeletons found in South African cave are female A cutting-edge analysis of the ...