However, careful reexaminations indicate the “little awl” is far more significant than originally believed—so much so that it ...

Researchers have found a link between prenatal oestrogen exposure and larger head size in newborn boys, using the ratio of ...

Through carbon dating, researchers have ruled that the artifacts are between approximately 11,700 and 12,900 years old, a ...

The ways people interact with and view nature speak volumes as to how Earth is treated, and the severity of environmental concerns rising makes what shapes people's view of nature a pertinent topic.

This measure compares the length of the index finger to the ring finger, a relationship called the 2D:4D ratio. Scientists have shown that this ratio reflects the balance of estrogen and testosterone ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

Fresh debate over the Shroud of Turin has erupted in the pages of the peer-reviewed journal Archaeometry, where three ...

Ancient footprints challenge the timeline of human arrival in North America, suggesting people were here much earlier than once believed.

A teenager's skeleton lay supine in a shallow pit on a bed of red ocher, his remains adorned with several ivory pendants, ...

The discovery of ancient Egyptian technology suggested that the civilization was mechanically sophisticated thousands of ...

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist and biologist whose work changed the way people thought about life on Earth. He ...

The ways people interact with and view nature speak volumes as to how the Earth is treated, and the severity of environmental concerns rising makes ...