It is likely that many of the human beings who inhabit the planet have never considered the physical circumstances that differentiate us from other living beings that walk the eart ...

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

On January 14, hippies and other counterculture participants swarmed to the polo grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in a gathering called the Human Be-In. Timothy Leary advised ...

The Bible's lex talionis—"Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot" (Exodus 21:24–27)—has captured the human imagination for millennia. This idea of fairness has been a ...

In their study, the team asked people to rate photos of non-human primates with altered eyes. Their results revealed that animals with bright irises and large pupils were rated as more ...

Noninvasive diagnosis of human diseases relies on the detection of molecular markers (probes) in a painless manner. Although extrinsic and intrinsic molecular markers are often used, intrinsic disease ...

Even odder, the cartridges appear to have been swapped out for… googly eyes. Over the holidays, posts about the bizarre phenomenon began popping up on social media. Multiple players have shared ...

human eyes, detached from human bodies but popping out, fruit-like, on thin stalks of plants; eyes more dully tracking passersby from a trio of looming brick columns surveilling the gallery’s ...