Our January digital cover story spotlights genre icon Doug Jones, famous for his on-screen transformations, who now takes on Nosferatu as you've never seen it before.

The outer ear is unique to mammals, but its evolutionary origin has remained a mystery. According to a study published in ...

Researcher Christopher J. Bae identified Homo juluensis, a new human species that coexisted with Denisovans in Asia. A ...

Throughout history, poets, scholars, and scientists have acknowledged the profound link between sleep and psychological well-being. The wisdom of “sleep on it”, ingrained in both Western and ...

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...

Musk is so bothered by this, in fact, that he has made it one of his long-term goals to create an interface that allows the human brain to communicate directly with a computer, unencumbered by the ...

When modern humans arrived in New Guinea roughly 50,000 years ago, they met and mixed with the Denisovans, a now-extinct group of human ancestors who originated in Asia. But after that initial ...

Archaeologists discovered a skull there, estimated to be 45,000 years old, and belonging to an early modern human. Unfortunately, this individual’s cultural and archaeological context remained unclear ...

If a robot's working 24/7, and is three times as productive as a human equivalent working eight hours a day, then you should be able to, for half the cost, get three times the productivity and not ...

Scientists have proposed a new form of ancient humans ... and unique traits that could challenge our understanding of human evolution entirely. Formally named Homo juluensis, the Juluren exhibit ...