Walt Disney World's Polynesian Village Resort has a new addition called the Island Tower. The Island Tower is inspired by Polynesian culture and features design elements and dining options ...

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...

When modern humans arrived in New Guinea roughly 50,000 years ago, they met and mixed with the Denisovans, a now-extinct group of human ancestors who originated in Asia. But after that initial ...

The City of London financial district has approved plans for a 73-floor skyscraper that will match in height Western Europe’s tallest tower a mile to the south, in a sign that city planners are ...

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Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

The US Program leads with the principle of racial justice and equity as a fundamental human right providing the foundational, over-arching, and unifying theme for all our work. Our strategic ...

They were part of a pioneer population that eventually died out, making them a ‘lost branch’ of the human family tree. Zooarchaeologist Dr Geoff Smith studied more than a thousand bone fragments found ...

Space architect Melodie Yasher has developed ingenious plans for using robots to 3D print the habitats, landing pads and everything needed for human life on Mars. Using robots means that these ...

A pair of studies analysed samples of modern human and Neanderthal DNA spanning 50,000 years of human history to discover when the two groups bred. Both studies suggested this inter-species ...

It turns out the LRJ people were part of the early human expansion from Africa to other parts of the world. But theirs was a surprisingly recent migration. The common ancestors of the LRJ people ...