Eastern Africa’s Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the ...

A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease, and lifestyle.

Africa’s widening rift is thinning the crust and reshaping the land, helping preserve fossils that reveal new clues about ...

Wednesday is Earth Day, a global day of support that raises awareness about the environment. Kathleen Rogers is the CEO of ...

The wombat’s intestine does something no other gut on Earth does. Understanding why reveals how deeply evolution can sculpt ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

Author Frank White talks about the overview effect, a concept he coined to describe our relationship to space.

Found just a little over 400 kilometers (250 miles) off the coast of Mozambique, the island of Madagascar is not only the ...

Stromatolites might look like rocks. But they are living relics of ancient systems that thrived on Earth billions of years ...