If elephants are truly to be given “freedom” in Udawalawe, the solution is not simply to open gates or redraw park boundaries ...

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 ...

Wisconsin lawmakers are reintroducing a bipartisan package of bills to expand protections for human trafficking victims. The state currently has one of the lowest scores in the nation for its laws ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 million years ago was Homo erectus. But in recent years, a debate has ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged the classification of one of the world's most complete human ancestral ...

Qin Hui, professor emeritus of history and economics at Tsinghua University and a pre-eminent Chinese public intellectual, who now lives and writes abroad, in April of this year published a book on ...

The technology is still in its infancy. But its trajectory suggests that ethical conversations may become pressing far sooner than expected. These “biocomputers” are still in their early days. They ...

GENEVA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk said on Wednesday that his office was in "survival mode" due to major funding cuts from global donors, while rights violations ...

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...

Eight San Jose high school students formed a human swastika on their school’s football field in a horrifying display of antisemitism that has sent shockwaves through the Silicon Valley community. The ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...

A cause of death has been determined for Brazilian influencer Barbara Jankavski, widely known as the “Human Barbie,” who was found dead last month at the age of 31. Jankavski, famous online for ...