Early humans in North and South America relied heavily on hunting of large mammals, including mammoths and giant ground ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, our own species, Homo sapiens, coexisted with Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis. Many of us ...

For decades, neuroscientists have known that specific regions in the brain’s left hemisphere are responsible for processing ...

An international team of astronomers, including a team at the University of Arizona Steward Observatory, announced the ...

For the first time ever, scientists have spotted a runaway supermassive black hole hurtling through space… alone. Leaving a ...

The unique cereal starch created by the Seung group at the John Innes Centre could lead to healthier, slower digesting pasta ...

Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it’s found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human, ...

65 million years ago, the trajectory of life on Earth was changed in an instant: when a massive asteroid, speeding through the inner Solar System, crashed into our planet. In the blink of a cosmic eye ...

Trade the tricorn hats, bonnets and homespun shirts for flip flops, sneakers and soccer jerseys, and the intrepid revolutionaries of 1776 would have looked a lot like the people of ...

The clean energy transition and the A.I. revolution both need LOTS of land to succeed. Could this radioactive site half the ...

Homo sapiens have been around for about 300,000 years. Often, our big brains and intelligence are credited with making us the ...

The human brain evolved for a world of familiar faces, immediate threats and small social groups. But the world around us is changing far faster than human biology can keep pace. That mismatch may hel ...