People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of observations to show that the global water cycle is ...

Plastic usage soared from 1.5 million metric tons in the 1950s to nearly 390.7 million in 2021. With the increased use in consumer products came elevated microscopic plastic pollution circulating ...

You, my friend, are what scientists call a "holobiont"- an organism made up of human cells and the multiplicity of ...

Inflammation is triggered by the immune system and is part of the body's natural response to injuries or disease. However, ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

For now, at least, humans in the loop is required. I wonder why that always is a requirement because we don’t have explainability of the human brain and we assume we always do things better ...

NASA scientists have uncovered significant human-driven changes in the global water cycle over the past two decades.

Most human cases of bird flu in the U.S. have been mild so far, and most had known exposure to sick or infected animals. Avian influenza A viruses are very different from human seasonal influenza ...

Human composting turns bodies into soil by speeding up “what happens on the forest floor,” according to Tom Harries, CEO of Earth Funeral, the human composting company the Muckenhoupt family ...