The taming of fire is credited with sparking humanity's evolutionary journey towards our modern levels of intelligence.

Deep in the mountains of southern Brazil, a bright orange frog, just over a centimeter long, hops into the spotlight.

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An extreme close-up of the Australian rufous net-casting spider's unique silk, captured by biologist Martín Ramírez and his ...

Gout is often blamed on overindulgence in alcohol or unhealthy eating, but research suggests genetics plays a much bigger ...

A faint, tiny flash of red light glimpsed at the Cosmic Dawn more than 13 billion years ago has smashed the record for the ...

When pregnant women drink water that comes from wells downstream of sites contaminated with PFAS, known as "forever chemicals ...

Fast, impulsive thinking and slow, deliberate thinking are both part of the brain's natural activity. Christmas shopping ...

Malaysia has announced it will ban children under 16 from social media starting in 2026. This follows the country requiring ...

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...

Cats meow more at owners who are men than women, new research has found, possibly because men tend to be more aloof when it ...

A calorie-restricted diet could slow down the aging that naturally happens in the brain as we get older, according to a new ...