The human remains recovered from the destroyed house on Osage Street were turned over to the Penn Museum for analysis as part of an investigation. In 2021, some of those remains were discovered to ...

For the first time, researchers were able to see inside the mummies in the Chicago Field Museum's collections. Their findings ...

In future studies, looking at the chemical signatures in the tooth enamel could fill in more biological gaps that help put ...

These miniature immune system models -- known as human immune organoids -- mimic the real-life environment where immune cells learn to recognize and attack harmful invaders and respond to vaccines.

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

Groundbreaking research reveals that our human ancestor, Lucy, was hairless, challenging previous assumptions.

Why is human culture -- the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations -- so much more powerful than animal cultures?

The exhibition shows this unique glimpse behind the scenes of science. 30thinkers – including University of Waterloo Professor of Physics and Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland – provide a survey of the ...

While most people get nowhere near that, the question of just how long the human body theoretically can survive is one of science’s most pressing questions. Scientists believe they know how long ...