Researchers revisited a 2,500-year-old mummified skull, uncovering signs of an extreme surgical procedure—which the ancient ...

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually ...

New scientific theory based on ancient proteins suggests that genes did not arise as we believed and that life could have started elsewhere.

A fascinating discovery reveals how ancient Scythian people used primitive prosthetics to perform jaw surgery, highlighting ...

Hosted by Nick Lambert, the conversation looks under the hood at World ID and its concept for a biometric-based, cryptographically secured custodial credential.

Paleoanthropologists Rachel Caspari and Sang-Hee Lee found that the ratio of older-to-younger adults among early modern ...

In his new book, Roland Ennos offers eye-opening ideas that the importance of physical power and engineering brilliance—rather than intellect—allowed us to dominate the planet.

Scientists think they’ve found a way to investigate the creation of cell membranes and DNA genomes that gave rise to the last universal common ancestor.

A massive, centuries-long drought may have driven the extinction of the “hobbits” of Flores. Climate records preserved in cave formations show rainfall plummeted just as the small human species ...

Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...