A case is set to be brought to the New York State Supreme Court to argue that chimps are 'legal persons'.
Scientists have been investigating human hibernation as a way to enable long-haul space trips.
A new study has investigated what causes the planet to inexplicably vibrate at very low frequencies.
Chimpanzees in southeastern Senegal have become quite adept at making their own weapons.
Computer scientist Valery Spiridonov is set to become the first man in history to undergo the procedure.
New research suggests that the human chin may have resulted from our ability to cook and soften food.
A DNA analysis suggests that a woman known as Zana may have been from a long lost human subspecies.
Our distant ancestors came in a variety of different shapes and sizes, just like modern humans do today.
A genome study has pinpointed when mankind's most recent common male ancestor would have lived.
Scientists have proposed a rather unorthodox way of prospecting for gold and other valuable metals.
The discovery has pushed back the emergence of the earliest humans by up to 400,000 years.
The early domestication of wolves by modern humans may have tipped the balance in our favor.
A leading surgeon believes it will soon be possible to perform a real-life head transplant on a human.
Google's DeepMind AI is now capable of playing several Atari 2600 games as skillfully as a human.
The celebrated physicist compared the exploration of space to 'life insurance' for the human race.
The SuperSTEM 3 is capable of examining objects a million times smaller than a human hair.
Researchers have drawn up a list of the dozen most likely scenarios that could spell the end of humanity.
A new study has confirmed that dogs are adept at reading the emotions of their human owners.
24-year-old Maggie Lieu has been shortlisted to go to Mars as part of the controversial Mars One project.
Conspiracy theorists claim to have identified the shadow of a man working on the Curiosity rover.