A variety of studies are showing that rough-and-tumble play is important for animals and kids alike.

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

Ethan was diagnosed with diffuse midline glioma (DMG), a cancer that is a death sentence for the vast majority of people who get it. DMG refers to cancerous tumors that grow on the thalamus, brainstem ...

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

Two researchers argue that humans are suffering from an evolutionary mismatch, leading to chronic stress and other health ...

Humans are still evolving! From skin color to lactose tolerance and disease resistance, discover how our bodies keep adapting ...

Numerous studies have charted our waning ability to concentrate over the past quarter century; literacy rates and reading for ...

Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...

Executive producer/director Anthony Hemingway brings The Hollywood Reporter behind the decisions around Sarah Paulson's ...

The United States is in the middle of a storm, the tempest from which it will not emerge until the end of the decade. It’s part of a cycle that has defined the U.S. body politic since the American ...

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you can't see, such as what foods different people are able to digest. When ...

In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative. Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, ...