South Korea’s government fabricated birth records, falsely reported children had been abandoned and failed to properly conduct safety checks of prospective parents during its postwar frenzy of sending ...

The pathogen C. diff - the most common cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea - can use a compound that kills ...

On Saturday, human remains were discovered in the basement trash chute of Building A. Louisville Metro Police were first ...

An inspection of state-run emergency shelters completed earlier this year after a migrant was arrested in Revere with a rifle ...

Analysis revealed that just 1 gram of chewing gum released approximately 100 microplastics on average, with 1 gram of some ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

Language is a defining characteristic of humanity, yet its origins remain a topic of intense debate. Some researchers argue ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.