Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

Tickling may be evolutionarily ancient and recognized across cultures, but science has only scratched the surface of this ...

Around 200 million animals are used in lab research around the world each year. Organoids may one day replace them.

With the Trump administration’s attacks on so-called woke AI it is becoming even harder to make the technology we use fairer and more diverse. Leading voices are speaking out, reports Catherine de Lan ...

New research shows many people vastly underestimate other people's beliefs in extraterrestrial life. Is social stigma keeping ...

Humans could have come from Mars, scientists have said. A study by Johns Hopkins University has found that alien microbes could travel between planets on asteroids, meaning humans could be descended ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why. A new ...

A new genetic analysis offers some ancient gossip: The pairings were more often female humans with male Neanderthals. How exactly this happened remains a huge question mark. Did human women venture ...