We are entering an era where society’s hardest challenges — health, energy, infrastructure, climate — become tractable in ...

A study of wild African herbivores offers new insight into how environmental conditions—not just diet and anatomy—can ...

Starfish, also known as sea stars, are equipped with an almost alien-like anatomy. Despite lacking a brain, blood, and ...

A national medical ethics nonprofit is applauding the introduction of new lifesaving legislation in Wisconsin.

This experimental study used life-sized and screen-based 3D male avatars to test how penis size, height, and body shape ...

The broader value of KNM-ER 64061 is that it adds weight to Turkana as the home of human origins when there is focus on building a science museum in there. A presidential task force established in ...

Hospital wards and corridors are cold, dreary places that many people dread visiting. However, no matter how much we loathe ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

Quick Take When Acupuncture Meets Elephant Medicine Acupuncture is no longer confined to human clinics. In recent years, it ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

“While the human penis functions primarily to transfer sperm, our result suggests its unusual large size evolved as a sexual ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.