Around 60,000 years ago, people in southern Africa were already using poisoned arrows as part of their hunting strategies.

For the first time, countries now have a shared way to understand whether the world is actually improving at adapting to ...

Newly sequenced Native genomes showcase a wealth of surprises, from previously unknown populations to unique high-altitude adaptations.

The Government of Bangladesh is fully committed to global climate-change advocacy and action, having already invested heavily in adaptation measures and policies. In recent decades, the government ...

Abstract: Robotic exoskeletons have advanced significantly, yet control systems still face challenges in delivering assistance that seamlessly aligns with the user’s musculoskeletal system. To enhance ...

The investment opportunity isn't choosing between feeding people and reducing emissions—it's backing solutions that do both ...

Climate change, extreme heat, and growing environmental instability are intensifying public health risks across diverse populations. In this context, ...

A big difference between humans and other apes is the ability to stride easily on two feet. A new analysis of fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking go back 7 million years.

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

Stanley Kubrick made only 13 features over the course of his career. Eleven of them are among the greatest pictures ever made ...

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you can't see, such as what foods different people are able to digest. When ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...