Scientists think Neanderthal children may have had faster growth rates because larger bodies tend to retain heat more ...

We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out — and we have only just begun.” Andrew ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

Now playing on Netflix: Games for kids. The megastreamer made a huge expansion of its winning kids and family strategy on Monday with the launch of Netflix Playground, a new app designed for children ...

There are some photos I simply expect to see on my socials this season, as spring break looms: tweens in ski gear smiling on the top of Aspen’s peaks, amateur sand castles built by tiny tots clad in ...

If you spent your childhood watching a parent skip meals, count calories out loud, or call certain foods “bad,” you’re not alone. And if you’ve caught yourself mid-sentence doing the same thing in ...

This question of why some branches of the tree of life explode into thousands of species, while others remain small, has shaped evolutionary biology since Charles Darwin. My colleague and I have ...

Most people get acquainted with their appendix when it’s inflamed and about to rupture. Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Most people know only two things about the appendix: ...