A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...

Where does tattoo ink go in your body? There’s one particular spot.

Trenton, NJ – New Jersey has officially legalized human composting, becoming the 14th state in the nation to allow residents ...

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

Ben Vos, a coordinator at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s on-site mortuary, walked CNN Travel through the strict protocol he ...

A newly translated papyrus from ancient Egypt dating back 3,500 years provides a rare insight into Egyptian embalming techniques. The ancient medical text details a procedure never identified before ...

The method could one day become a treatment for infertility A decade of further research needed, scientists say The process overcomes an obstacle that stymied previous attempts Significant safety ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Catherine Powell, an adjunct senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the former ...

Every four-and-a-half years, on a revolving basis, each of the 193 member countries of the United Nations submits a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council on its domestic human rights record under ...

Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into synthetic uterine tissue—revealing a key stage in reproduction. The resulting ...

Perhaps a green burial is the least we can do to repay the planet for all it has given us and all the damage we’ve caused. Thinking about death is complicated; it can bring up fear and stress, even ...