Could humans be one of the earliest or even the first intelligent species to evolve in the universe ?
Jamie Fox has been supplementing his income by sitting in a field and acting as a human scarecrow.
In a few very rare cases individuals have demonstrated sudden and inexplicable super-human talents.
Did a massive impact explosion wipe out humans in North America and initiate a new Ice age ?
Even if we do overcome the technological hurdles in reaching other worlds, should we actually go there ?
What are the advantages of human bipedalism over the locomotion methods of other animal species ?
If Luo Meizhen's claim is accurate then she would be the oldest human being to have ever lived.
A company planning to send humans to Mars by 2023 has received its first funding from sponsors.
The first human being ever to set foot on another world, Neil Armstrong, has died aged 82.
How long will it be before robots and computers become capable of thinking like a human being ?
A new study casts doubt on the idea that our ancient ancestors would have interbred with Neanderthals.
Researchers believe they have uncovered DNA evidence of an unknown sister species of human.
Family man John Canfield found something distinctly unusual on a home video he had recorded.
Palaeontologists have unearthed the most complete ever pre-human skeleton at a dig site in South Africa.
Even with spacesuits and other protective equipment the lunar dust could prove lethal to astronauts.
Scientists believe that some people are able to see up to 100 times the range of colours most of us can.
Humans are believed to have evolved the innate ability to both sense and fear spiders and snakes.
University scientists are teaching a robot to speak by emulating the way a baby might learn things.
It has been almost 40 years since humans stepped foot on the Moon - isn't it time we went back ?
New research has suggested that Neanderthals may have created cave paintings before modern humans.