The Maha Kumbh Mela, a pilgrimage that draws over 450 Million people, is often hailed as the world's largest human gathering. Yet, beneath its spiritual significance lies a sociological marvel-a ...

Social support is thought to be an adaptive response to extreme stressors, Platt said. This means that having strong social ...

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Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

Altruism, often considered a typically human characteristic, may in fact have deeper roots in the animal world. The observation of helping behaviors in mice challenges our understanding of empathy and ...

Humans were living in a tropical rainforest in West Africa 150,000 years ago. The finding pushes human habitation of tropical forests much further back in time, suggesting our ancestors were able ...

The discovery clashes with the traditional image of humans evolving on the savannas of East Africa. By Carl Zimmer For generations, scientists looked to the East African savanna as the birthplace ...

For centuries, animals have mystified scientists with their capacity to predict disasters—long before humans even get a whiff of trouble. From inexplicable vanishing acts to strange antics ...

In what some described as an “eerily human” display, the robot seems to pause, briefly fixates on the spectators, and then loses control. As bystanders gasp, the robot lunges abruptly toward ...

As a physician and scholar in the medical humanities, I’ve found the quest to expand the human lifespan both fascinating and fraught with moral peril. During the 1970s and 80s, for example ...