India has moved to classify dolphins as non-human persons whose rights and liberties must be respected.
A school in Botswana was forced to close after pupils reported sighting a small hairy humanoid creature.
The starships of the Star Trek universe seem a long way off both technologically and financially.
The ancestors of modern humans may have hunted down Neanderthals and used them as a food source.
Are we heading for a future in which artificially intelligent computers will exceed our capabilities ?
New evidence has been found which suggests humans reached South America far earlier than thought.
The controversial theory that humans evolved from amphibious apes has been gaining new support.
The impressive new touch-sensitive material is created using arrays of transistors made of nanowires.
If we were to become extinct in the forseeable future, how exactly would such an event come about ?
Humans have been playing and listening to music since the dawn of time, so what makes it so appealing ?
The two-million-year-old fossil remains of an ancient human ancestor have been uncovered in South Africa.
The uncannily human-like Petman robot from Boston Dynamics has now been given a head and clothes.
Scientists have developed a mind control mechanism allowing a human to control a rat with thought alone.
The Air Force is researching the biological effects of using non-lethal energy weapons on humans.
The skeletal remains of what is thought to be a cross between a human and a Neanderthal have been found.
Researchers have found a way to regrow teeth using a combination of human and mouse stem cells.
Did early humans domesticate dogs or did the dogs adapt themselves to benefit from being around us ?
A new robot called 'Roboy' is helping to highlight the psychological challenges in robot design.
A team in Switzerland are building a complete and working computer simulation of the whole human brain.
Genetic experimentation and augmentation could create real-life X-Men within as little as 30 years.