A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted ...

To reach these conclusions, the study authors analyzed a total of 1,091 functional MRI scans of neurotypical children from ...

When writers describe music as so powerful every cell in the listener’s body vibrates, they may be closer than they know.

The idea that the seeds of life may have originated on another planet is far from new, but is there any value to it?

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"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This ...

"There has been a bewildering array of different ecological roles for crocodylomorphs, from terrestrial herbivores and ...

It only took a century, but we've finally managed to film a live colossal squid in the flesh – and it's a baby!

It can be a vicious cycle. Burdened by the belief that you don’t belong where you’ve ended up, you overwork yourself, aiming ...

The team’s model predicted that approximately 103,000 cancers per year – around 5 percent of the 2 million new cancer ...

W e may have visually led predators to thank for some of the most dazzling marine species: sea slugs. Luminous greens, blues, ...

In a testament to the crows’ intelligence (or perhaps just the deliciousness of mealworms), the birds all caught on ...