Homo sapiens is the most successful mammalian species in Earth history, and it’s not even close. The species thrives on ...

Scientists in the United Kingdom reported this week that an investigative oral vaccine provided significant protection in a ...

This year, for the first time in nearly a century, more foreign-born people will likely leave the United States than will ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

Around 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens faced near extinction due to the Toba supervolcano eruption, which triggered a volcanic ...

Tokyo — An agitated bear roamed the aisles of a grocery store in central Japan, injuring two men and frightening shoppers, officials said Wednesday, while Japanese media said a man was found dead ...

California may be known as the Golden State, with its shimmering beaches and warm Mediterranean climate. But clinging to the rooftop of the High Sierra are the last remnants of glaciers that have ...

Scientists have made a landmark breakthrough that enables the creation of viable human egg cells from a skin cell, new research claims. The study, published in Nature Communications, detailed how US ...

TWIN FALLS, Idaho — Two men on opposite sides of the country started searching years ago for their long-lost relatives. That search brought them face-to-face for the first time last week. Kevin ...

GREENWICH — The human remains found at a construction site in northern Greenwich last week are “of a historic nature,” the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said Friday. The medical ...

An airport in northern Denmark was forced to close because of unauthorized drones in its airspace, police said early Thursday, the second drone-caused shutdown of a Danish airport this week as Europe ...