Analysis of human remains dating back to 2500BC indicates that dozens of people were killed, butchered and consumed during a ...

The anatomist Raymond Dart saw the "child of Taung" as the missing link in the history of human development. But at first it ...

A recent Texas case bears similarity to others where serial killers claimed they were called on to make "sacrifices" for ...

Now, new analysis of some of the few bones that remain has found that people living 5,600 years ago in Ukraine may not have ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species' shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern ...

China is a Jurassic treasure trove going big with fossil discoveries. But will dinosaurs have the same pulling power as ...

The shocking blood of the men forms an obscene art: a moustache, alone on a sidewalk, a blistered hand’s gold ring still ...

A confidential Navy program is studying whether intense fighter jet operations can cause devastating brain injuries in flight ...

Chinese scientists have discovered dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, which are the earliest ones found in East Asia in terms of the evolution process towards Homo sapiens, the species ...

Brain-computer interfaces are already changing lives for people with disabilities, but the technology is overtaking the ...