A century after the Taung Child permanently altered our view of human origins, a new study published in npj Palaeoecosystems ...
Chimpanzees may learn how to use some of their calls from the adults around them, in a surprising parallel with how human ...
Anthropologists seeking to understand human evolution often include primates such as chimps or apes in their studies. But a ...
Long-period, high-inclination comets of the sort that can cause extinction-level impacts here on Earth have long been thought ...
Monkeys constantly observe and evaluate their social environment. It stands to reason that the social and mental abilities ...
About 50 million years ago, Earth experienced its warmest climate since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Global temperatures ...
Kari Schleher, an assistant professor in the University of New Mexico's Department of Anthropology and faculty curator of ...
The tiny atomic defects so important for future quantum technologies can be difficult to spot. Fortunately, they leave behind ...
When they start to get too warm but before they're dangerously hot, most plants employ a similar playbook. They change their ...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common in cats but often goes undiagnosed until it's at a late stage. Thanks to a recent ...
Aswin Singaram Natarajan rolls a stem of wheat in his hands. It looks perfectly healthy, but the senior experimental ...
Iran and Afghanistan have a certain iconic status as largely inhospitable areas, rich in raw materials. But where does this ...