Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't start with Australopithecus, according to a new study

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NASA has announced that the world as we know it may be facing significant existential threats, lining up with physicist Stephen Hawking's prediction.

Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, an extinct hominin. Her discovery changed our understanding of evolution.

Inside a cave beneath a medieval German castle, researchers have discovered a pit of bones that they say unlock secrets of the earliest humans.

As the billionaire warns of population collapse and the moral obligation to have children, he’s navigating his own complicated family.

An expert claims a hybrid human-chimpanzee was born in a lab but was euthanized by scientists due to 'morals' and 'ethics'.

From 140 million miles distant, Earth just got the following message: NASA knows exactly what comes next. This message helps with transmitting.

The NOVA special’s claim is, “The split brain phenomenon suggests that there can be two separated minds, if you will, inside of a skull.”

Our species is especially vulnerable.

Did they beat humans to the punch?

Human evolution, the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. The only extant members of the human tribe, Hominini, belong to the species Homo sapiens. The exact nature of the evolutionary relationships between modern humans and their ancestors remains the subject of debate.

Scientists have pushed back LUCA’s origin by hundreds of millions of years.

Scientists used computer modeling and the genomes of several hundred living people to examine our prehistoric origins

Weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its favor, the City Council of Grants Pass Oregon voted unanimously Wednesday night to adopt a new camping resolution. (Scripps News)

The origin of life on Earth is a profound mystery - including when it started and how the ingredients for it were assembled. And a new study aimed at answering the latter question finds that some building blocks didn't need to have formed on Earth, but could have arrived from space. The study, published AprilContinue reading "Evidence grows that meteorites, comets could have brought essentials of life to early Earth" The post Evidence grows that...

The Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford astonishingly shared per their research that we all may have some genetics rooted in Africa.

The quake was felt across Lubbock.

"You see people out doing activities where it's quite warm, and suddenly somebody collapses." Data shows over 1 billion people have endured near-deadly heat in 2024: 'People typically are not aware that they're getting into trouble' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Oppressive heat is blanketing large swaths of the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, southern New England and the Northwest. Idaho could hit 109 degrees.

It has been 12 straight months that the world has been more than 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial levels.