Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Marine researchers are investigating the death of a basking shark that washed up recently in Wellfleet. Here's what we know.

Elon Musk's 2016 prediction of humans setting foot on Mars by 2025 has resurfaced with his viral tweet featuring a futuristic ...

When humans kick swim through water, vortices form around their legs, generating the force that propels them forward. However ...

Researchers were able to recreate the running form of the famous hominin. Spoiler: she’s not winning any marathons.

A strong, pliant foot is a runner’s friend. While it’s a moot point how you go about creating such a foot, certainly time ...

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that his AI startup is racing to secure the computing power needed to meet demand for its generative AI chatbot Claude. “The surge in demand ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Our teaching excellence feeds into a fantastic array of undergraduate degrees in a variety of subjects, while our ground-breaking research has led to: new treatments for ovarian cancer, the discovery ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for the development of assistive and medical tools, including prosthetic limbs. While these limbs used to be hard objects with the same ...

Humans don't have hollow bones like birds do, so how big would our wings have to be to lift us off the ground?

The stiff sole restricts the foot’s natural movement ... Kinesiologists like to examine the human body as a kinetic chain. This is to say, if you hurt part of your lower body, your upper ...