The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.

Microbiologist Cesar de la Fuente searches organisms’ genomes, including those that are long gone, to find “encrypted ...

Deep inside France’s Bruniquel Cave, archaeologists discovered rings of stacked stalagmites built 175,000 years ago, long before modern humans reached Europe. These circular structures, complete with ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks” ...

This tiny track, alongside those of an older child and at least one adult, is at the heart of a remarkable discovery. For the ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a ...

New fossil and DNA studies reveal that interbreeding between Neanderthals, Denisovans, and early Homo sapiens occurred ...

A reconstruction of an ancient skull suggests that humans could have evolved half a million years earlier than thought. Not ...

The skull reconstruction points to an Asian lineage that includes Homo longi and the mysterious Denisovans. It essentially ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.