Humans news, articles and features | Page 13 | New Scientist

Skip to content

Students prepare a stew over an open fire at the stone age park near Albersdorf, Germany. Students of the University of Hamburg took on the roles of people from the stone age as part of one of their classes

Humans

Humans couldn't pronounce 'f' and 'v' sounds before farming developed

The development of agriculture in the Neolithic transformed world languages thanks to softer food – a finding that resolves a long-standing puzzle of the origin of speech sounds

News

Opt-out organ donation law: Your questions answered

Health

Opt-out organ donation law: Your questions answered

News

Stonehenge

Humans

Sailors spread the ancient fashion for monuments like Stonehenge

News

How nature is evolving in the human age

Video

How nature is evolving in the human age

Video

sun

Life

Chasing the Sun review: Light's power over life charted

Culture

A neanderthal skull

Humans

The last Neanderthals may have died out much earlier than we thought

News

2018’s weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons

2018’s weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons

News

burning tusks

Earth

Anthropocene review – tough film makes case for human-created epoch

Culture

People silhouetted against sky

Humans

Indigenous peoples in the Amazon and Australia share some ancestry

News

A landscape in Borneo

Humans

World's first figurative art is of an unknown animal in Borneo

A red animal painted on a cave wall in Borneo more than 40,000 years ago is the oldest drawing of a real-life object ever discovered

News

Video

Martin Rees: The posthuman future

Video

Humans

Idly tapping your fingers can make you think time has slowed down

News

Humans

The Book of Humans review – a smart update on human exceptionalism

Culture

Technology

A tiny robotic capsule could roam your intestines and suck up mucus

News