The BBC's children's show has been on air since 1958 but has made history again with the announcement that canine comedian ...

The next generation of deep-brain stimulation automatically corrects the precise brain waves that create symptoms of ...

Jane Goodall began her groundbreaking field study by living among chimpanzees in Tanzania. In 1986, she told the BBC how similar chimps and humans really are.

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This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

Is it better, for the health of a society, to pardon or punish the perpetrators?” Caught “between the drive to forget and the ...

Ancient DNA from prehistoric bones reveals a 37,000-year timeline of human infections, tracing our long struggle with disease.

A person in northern Arizona died from bubonic (pneumonic) plague, marking Coconino County's first death from the disease ...

By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.