An eerily realistic robot designed to emulate a human woman has been turning heads this week in China.
Scientists have found a way to identify the DNA of our ancestors from prehistoric bone dust samples.
A new study has suggested that it would not take long for a zombie apocalypse to wipe out mankind.
The mesentery is found inside the digestive system and has only now been identified as a single organ.
Several sets of footprints left by an ancient human ancestor have been found at the site of a new museum.
The oldest human being on Earth, Emma Morano, is the last person alive to have seen the 19th century.
It takes the average person only 0.25 seconds to tell that an android is not an actual human being.
Hints of an unknown species of human have been found in the DNA of the modern day Melanesian people.
Dr Fergus Simpson maintains that humanity has a 13% chance of going extinct before the century is out.
The President-elect is hoping to send humans back to the Moon - and beyond - within the next few decades.
Scientists studying bonobos reveal that it is not only humans who suffer from diminishing eyesight.
Dominant hand preference appears to date back to a time long before modern humans arrived on the scene.
The US President has reiterated his efforts to send humans to the Red Planet within the coming decades.
A new study has suggested that humans may be limited to a maximum lifespan of around 115 years.
Palaeontologists have identified a prehistoric Titanosaur footprint that is the size of a human torso.
Elon Musk has outlined his extraordinarily ambitious plans to make mankind an interplanetary species.
Scientists have found signs of bone cancer in the fossil remains of an early South African hominin.
Scientists have found a way for two men to reproduce without the need for any female egg at all.
Scientists believe that an early human ancestor discovered 40 years ago died after falling out of a tree.
Road safety authorities have created a model of a human being that has evolved to survive car accidents.