The phrase, from the title of a newly posted article on Nature.com, is provocative: "man the fire-maker".** In the list of perennial candidates for definitive characteristics that distinguish the ...

Any boring college class would benefit greatly if Alan Alda were plopped in the front row. Of course, recruiting the six-time Emmy winner to enroll in Biology 101 might prove difficult, so just ...

Through the national outreach initiative for The Human Spark, WNET was able to observe the complex relationships formed between public television stations and science museums when collaborating on ...

After some three and a half billion years of life’s evolution on this planet – and after almost two million years since people recognizable as human first walked its surface – a new human burst upon ...