Biologist Mike Ross, balanced in a canoe beneath a star-filled sky in central Zambia, slaps the water with a net attached to ...

Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya wins a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights in her long legal battle ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built for heavy ...

Marketing geniuses at Liquid Death, a brand of canned water, had rocker Ozzy Osbourne autograph and drink 10 cans of their ...

South Africa’s health ministry has expressed concern about a persistent campaign of Covid-19 vaccine disinformation circulating online, referring to a video that purports to show renowned South ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

A data analysis by The New York Times shows that a form of torture popular during apartheid endures in the country despite ...

"I never truly felt a sense of belonging within my family, in some ways, I've always been very physically different from everyone else," Valerio told Newsweek.

A rock core was extracted by a team of researchers from a depth of 15 meters belowground, ensuring that the sample had ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...