After 15 years, we know the first Denisovan skull.” With these words, Qiaomei Fu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced a paradigm-shifting moment in human evolution research, as molecular ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs to this group, after examining preserved DNA and proteins ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

After surviving a devastating head injury in 2009, a man has opened up about the long-term impact it has had on his identity, ...

Technology; emoji; What your emoji use says about you as study reveals psychological traits The use of emojis has become a universal language for everyone, but the use of the digital hieroglyphics ...

As Jennifer Daniel, head of the Unicode emoji subcommittee, writes on Substack, this is a feature, not a bug: “Hearts are among the most frequently used type of emoji, and the nine colored ...

Gboard’s Emoji Kitchen, on the other hand, is more like a tribute to a human sense of humor. Every combination is created by hand, meaning there is a fixed (but growing) number of recipes to make.

The human head that washed ashore in South Florida this week belonged to a missing 19-year-old swimmer, police said Friday. Victor Enrique Castaneda Jr. went missing Saturday near the jetty area ...

The Miami-Dade Police Department is investigating after a human head washed ashore on a local beach Tuesday morning, NBC 6 reports.According to police, officers were notified of the human part ...

Miami-Dade Police said the discovery was made around 8:30 a.m. by a worker raking the beach. Officials could not determine a gender, or how the head was severed.