For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study published in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Sweden show ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been radically altered over millions of years to allow us to accomplish our bizarre ...

I love everything about movies and have an eagle eye for the tiniest of details. Have a bad habit of making jokes in the most uncomfortable moments and I amplify the awkwardness with my dry humour. I ...

I pity the people who couldn't admire James Arthur Lovell Jr.'s life while he was still alive. In a world where I feel like people of importance who aren't athletes or brain-dead celebrities are ...

The Petralona skull is a mysterious and important piece in the human evolution puzzle. This image is a reconstruction depicting the skull attached to a cave wall. (Image credit: By Nadina, CC BY-SA ...

For most people who experience this condition, its distorting effect on human faces lasts just a few days or weeks. PMO-triggered distortions have been known to make people's faces appear "demonic" — ...

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