Prof Manthi digs evidence from the ground to explain human origin in a country deeply rooted in religious beliefs.

Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question "How did we get here?" These moments also shed ...

A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

Findings currently being carried out could change history forever. A NASA satellite has found a series of details in the ocean thanks to a study led by Texas A&M University, using ...

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

Only a tiny sliver of the Universe’s light can be seen by human eyes. But today we’re catching glimpses of the invisible ...