New research sheds light on why predators don’t evolve to become so aggressive that they eat all their prey – and then go extinct themselves.

We put the question to a Harvard scientist who studies neural and behavioral variation in domestic canine breeds.

A new study doubles the age of ancient DNA in sub-Saharan Africa, revealing how people moved, mingled and had children together over the last 50,000 years.

J-PAL North America publication highlights the promise of sectoral employment programs in combating US wage inequality.

Wolves killing livestock are seizing an opportunity for a meal in a landscape with little natural prey.

Historian Tanalís Padilla’s new book about activist rural schools in Mexico highlights long-running tensions in the nation’s politics.

New research that indicates humans may have arrived in Europe much earlier than previously thought also raises some intriguing questions.

You have a finely honed sense of privacy in the physical world. But the sights and sounds you encounter online don’t help you detect risks and can even lull you into a false sense of security.

Stone artifacts and a fossil tooth point to Homo sapiens living at Grotte Mandrin 54,000 years ago, at a time when Neanderthals were still living in Europe.

Work at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence will aim to prevent the embedding of existing inequalities – from gender to class and race – in