Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

The discovery that amino acids can form in more ways than we thought is another boost to the search for life beyond Earth. If ...

Something extraordinary has happened, even if we haven’t fully realized it yet: algorithms are now capable of solving ...

How big of a role do our genes play in our lifespan? Quite a bit more than previously thought, a new study suggests.

One of the worst traitors in American history has died. Aldrich Ames was a CIA officer who spent years spying for the Soviet Union before he was arrested in 1994. Ames died, fittingly enough, in a ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins. By Franz Lidz Researchers on Wednesday ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

Human evolution is explained through branching lineages rather than a simple linear progression. Fossils, genetics, and archaeology together reveal how multiple human species emerged, interacted, and ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

(CNN) — Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil ...

Samsung Biologics’ wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, Samsung Biologics America, signed a definitive agreement to acquire Human Genome Sciences from GSK. The move secures Samsung Biologics’ first ...