Two fossil skulls found in central China are prompting fresh debate over when they lived – and where they belong in the human family tree.
A team at Northwestern University used artificial intelligence to evolve robot body plans inside a physics simulation, then physically assembled the top-performing designs and turned them loose on ...
A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.
On the morning of Feb. 6, the road leading to the Bardiya District Administration Office in western Nepal was filled with people moving as one. Dust rose from their footsteps. Voices layered over each ...
Our limited understanding of the metabolism of our microbial ancestor is a sizeable gap in our knowledge of how complex life originated. Resolving whether our closest microbial relatives had ...
The database of 200 million protein-structure predictions now includes homodimers, adding new biological relevance.