Human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 98% identical, and the genes themselves barely differ. The changes that make us human are thought to hide instead in the DNA that controls when and where ...

The exhibit of "Bodies: The Science Within" at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium runs from now until Nov. 29 and includes Spanish translations.

How are your knees doing? Do they crackle like a campfire when you get off the couch? Do they send sharp, nagging pains reminding you to sit down if you've been standing too long? You're not alone.

A chopping wound above the eye and more carnage solve a mystery that stumped archeologists for a century.

A new systematic review synthesizes decades of research showing that fire transforms human bone in predictable ways, ...

Over 500 years before the building of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, First Dynasty kings were buried in a tomb surrounded by ...

A new analysis offossilized limb bones suggests that Australopithecus, an early human ancestor, combined substantial time in trees with a way of using its legs that resembled our own. The study, led ...

A boy's 2008 find in South Africa led to Australopithecus sediba, an ancient human relative about 2 million years old.

Houston police are awaiting autopsy results on skeletal remains found at 3500 Blalock Road about 2:45 p.m. on October 2. The identity, gender and cause of death of the individual ...

A skeleton, a moth and a coral reef might not sound like the beginning of a fashion collection — but at the Brooklyn Museum, ...

Reinvestigation of mass burial sites around royal tombs finds evidence of fatal blunt force trauma on skulls ...

The MacArthur Foundation has just announced its latest batch of 20 fellows. Among the recipients of the $800,000 ...