Our early human ancestors telling fireside stories may have propelled the development of speech by facilitating discussion of ...

Far from being a brief stopover, the team says the site was a base camp, inhabited by prehistoric humans on and off for over ...

Elephants are ecosystem engineers. They trample trees, loosen soil with their tusks, and can even create trails and watering ...

The researchers were most interested in comparing how well the two groups performed a move they referred to as a “slam start” ...

In fact, their poop piles are so dense that they show up on satellite images. And the guano stains aren’t just in the spots ...

The Shanidar Cave system in Iraq provided some of the first evidence that Neanderthals, like us, buried their dead. Now, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports, it might also be the ...

When baby needs watching and mom and dad get busy, the blue light of a glowing rectangle often beckons. Instead of playing another round of peek-a-boo while dinner burns, they may turn to a phone, ...

You started off as just two cells. Then those cells became four cells, which became eight cells, and so on. As you sit here reading this, your body has roughly 30-40 trillion cells, each performing ...

In July 1943, Robert Oppenheimer called Arthur Compton to say he was coming to Michigan, where Compton was on a brief vacation with his wife and son in a lakeside house. He had to talk about a matter ...

Three years ago, I began a strange experiment—strange even for a poet. For nine months, I seeded my dreams with recorded poetry from Harvard University’s audio archive, then tried to capture the ...