There is something almost offensive about a sky so full of stars and so empty of company. That is what gives Richard ...

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible.

Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evidence that the ...

Plague is commonly associated with rats, crowded medieval cities, and the epidemics that swept across Europe during and after ...

The people of Near Oceania carry a genetic legacy that stretches back almost to the beginning of humanity’s expansion across ...

After more than two decades without leads or answers, human remains found in Washington state’s Olympic National Park in 2000 have been identified as Joseph Louis Serrao Jr ...

Even at this early stage in our spacefaring age, humanity has already begun sending probes that will eventually reach other ...

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor (Nature Geoscience - Biogeochemistry) Organisation: Nature Portfolio Location: Shanghai, Beijing, Milan and P... Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature ...

A federal immigration judge has granted asylum to a woman orphaned in Iran in the 1970s and adopted by an American war ...

Ancestry test results now tell people, almost as a fun fact, that they carry a sliver of Neanderthal DNA. It has become a quirky line in a family report, a souvenir from a chapter that feels safely ...