Stanley Kubrick was ready to move straight onto a new movie following '2001: A Space Odyssey' that would depict a certain ...

Craig Venter, the hard-charging San Diego biologist who co-led the sequencing of the human genome, leading to better ways to ...

He challenged a $3 billion genome project and changed modern science.

Ilia Ivanov was determined to find a way to hybridize humans and chimps, but the idea never should’ve made it beyond science ...

Yoox chose Milan Design Week to present an immersive installation created in collaboration with Viennese digital artist Keta ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical traces in fossil teeth. Experiments suggest this exposure may have driven ...

Pioneering scientist J. Craig Venter has died at 79. His "whole genome shotgun method" helped genome sequencing become faster ...

J. Craig Venter has died at 79. He mapped the first draft of the human genome. The J. Craig Venter Institute announced his ...

How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, ...

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in ...