A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

One of the defining features of human evolution is the steady expansion of our brains. New findings suggest this growth may be partly linked to higher levels of estrogen before birth. Surprisingly, a ...

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

As sea level rise pushes saltwater farther into the Florida Keys, it is not only roads and neighborhoods that are at risk; it is also the record of the region's earliest human history. For University ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Experts and neighbors spoke at the Tuesday town hall which focused on how a data center project would affect water usage, ...

Located a few kilometres from Tirana, Kamza is a symbol of the internal migration that followed the collapse of Albania's socialist regime. Constructed by its inhabitants, the city is currently ...

Potlapally Kamala Manohar Rao was a pioneering anthropologist and government officer who transformed the lives of tribal communities in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Rao’s legacy is remembered not ...

An international team led by the University of Vienna and Liège University Hospital Centre has uncovered genetic changes linked to a rare inherited ...

The Graduate School of Education is expanding access to advanced professional education with a suite of fully online graduate programs, including two EdD programs and a newly launched EdM in learning ...

The ‘Ain Braq aqueduct, which runs through the Jabal al-Madhbah massif into Petra, was even more sophisticated than scientists previously believed.

When Ötzi the Iceman was discovered in the Alps in September 1991, it was the kind of find that makes archaeologists go a little weak in the knees. Two German hikers, Erika and Helmut Simon, spotted a ...