A quarter of a century ago--way back when Bill Clinton was president, Saddam Hussein was still running Iraq, and your cellphone, if you had one, was a brick--CNN and USA Today commissioned a poll by ...

The Department of State has instructed U.S. embassies located in Western nations to report human rights abuses occurring ...

The original design choice behind Star Trek's most famous half-Vulcan would have made for a very different vibe.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...

Ella Al-Shamahi explores the complexities of our past by meeting the fascinating human species we once shared the planet with ...

It took more than a century for researchers to prove that Neanderthals were actually quite intelligent and that they ...

A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Officials revealed that an alleged human smuggling operation involving over a dozen individuals has been uncovered inside a Texas home. Authorities with the Texas Department of Public Safety and ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...