The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

The Centre opposes a mother's plea to use her deceased son's sperm for IVF, citing his explicit consent for the sample to be ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Luis E. Romero is an entrepreneur, author and speaker. “Who’s smarter—humans or AI?” Experts and the general public wrestle with ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on record? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

At the moment of their union, fertilizing gametes (sperm and oocyte) are transcriptionally silent: gene expression has to be initiated within the resulting embryo, a process termed embryonic genome ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Humans come from Africa. This wasn’t always obvious, but ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

The Space Marines are, according to Warhammer 40,000 lore, the finest soldiers humanity has ever fielded. Genetically enhanced, clad, and armed with the best armor and weapons humanity offers, they ...

In a popular sci-fi cliché, one day artificial intelligence goes rogue and kills every human, wiping out the species. Could this truly happen? In real-world surveys, AI researchers say that they see ...

Long ago, early humans shared the earth with several archaic human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. These species, were bipedal and close relatives of modern humans. They lived in parts ...