Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

Researchers have uncovered the earliest modern human remains in Europe — bones from Bulgaria’s Bacho Kiro cave that date back ...

There, they encountered the Neanderthals, our now-extinct relatives, and over centuries these groups mated and exchanged DNA. Advances in genome-sequencing and fossil discoveries have helped ...

The imposing sci-fi worthy structure, about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, is circulating online after being spotted on Google Maps. On social media, people have compared it to a skyscraper ...

Denisovans, who co-existed with Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, remain a poorly understood group. "Denisovan fossils are very scarce," noted Takumi Tsutaya of the Graduate University for Advanced ...

Scientists have discovered that an ancient jawbone found in Taiwan belonged to Denisovans, a little-known extinct group closely related to Neanderthals ... If the younger range holds true, it ...

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"If the specimen falls into the younger age range ... The map shows what the coastline looked like when sea levels were at their lowest. | Credit: Takumi Tsutaya "It is now clear that two contrasting ...

On Wednesday, a team of researchers announced that it belonged to a Denisovan, a member of a mysterious lineage of humans related to Neanderthals. The discovery significantly expands the range of ...

So, he went to the range and hit some balls. And then some more. He mashed 393 balls to be exact. "Just felt like I wasn't all the way there with my iron game and felt like I needed to be a bit ...