Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

We finally understand why humans don’t have tails The latest research traces the evolution of a gene that makes us able ... How does the carbohydrate-loving timeline map against our species’ history?

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

A newly published research paper has reignited debate about when humans first set foot in Australia, proposing a later date ...

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

The 1990s were a boom time for new programming languages. The rise of the internet and the increasing complexity of software ...