Researchers have been attempting to solve the mystery of a 300,000-year-old skull found in Greece.
A few thousand years from now, some of the human body's less useful adaptations are likely to disappear.
The eye-opening project could provide the world's first robot capable of growing and 'giving birth' to a human baby.
A prize-winning, hypothetical spacecraft could be the key to enabling humans to colonize distant worlds.
The legendary movie director recently spoke out about the main threats to human civilization in the 21st Century.
The site of one of the worst volcanic disasters in human history didn't stay abandoned for as long as you might think.
Evidence of human cannibalism has been found in fossilized bones dating back 850,000 years.
China's new Walker S2 humanoid robot is capable of working without human intervention almost indefinitely.
Dams constructed around the world over the last two centuries have had an impact on the planet's poles.
Wild orcas have been documented on multiple occasions making food 'offerings' to humans.
Could Neanderthals, Denisovans and other human species blend seamlessly into the modern world ?
The controversial research aims to cure diseases, but it also has the potential to create biological weapons.
A fossilized skull discovered in the 1930s has now been identified as that of an elusive, ancient species of human.
SETI has been taking inspiration from the mysterious communications of a well known ocean-dwelling mammal.
Transhumanism could see real-life mutants become the norm, rendering ordinary humans obsolete.
Some plants have evolved the ability to trap and consume small animals, but their size has always been very limited.
A skull found by farmers almost 70 years ago is at the center of an ongoing paleoanthropological mystery.
To call Elon Musk's plans for sending humans to Mars overly ambitious would be a major understatement.
Many believe that the object is extraterrestrial in nature and that it even contains a message for humanity.
Viral CCTV footage shows the moment a factory robot suddenly freaks out and starts flailing around madly.