This geometric figure — first identified by dentist William Bonwill in 1864 — is formed by connecting the two points where ...

The image shows a mesa that resembles a human face (center), which helped to spawn a cottage industry of pseudoscientific claims about ancient Martian civilizations. NASA/JPL/MSSS.

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

When robots communicate with humans, expressions play an important role. This paper explains the design and prototyping of a facial expression robot which imitates human's muscular structures. The ...

The so-called "Dragon Man" skull found in China in 1933 sheds light on the ancient human species the Denisovans, about whom ...

Zhenhao Zou filmed the attacks as souvenirs and kept a trophy box of women’s belongings, including clothing, jewellery and a ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

Creating photo-real digital human faces remains one of the biggest challenges in computer graphics. A core component of the challenge comes from the high complexity of the human face, and the ...

Functional imaging has revealed face-responsive visual areas in the human fusiform gyrus, but their role in recognizing familiar individuals remains controversial. Face recognition is particularly ...

Last week, federal officials brought him back to the U.S. to face charges in Tennessee. The charges stem from a 2022 traffic stop where Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers suspected human trafficking.