Anxiety is not inherently bad. It’s a feature, not a flaw, of the human mind. Its evolutionary purpose was to keep us alive, ...

Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally long childhood ... Then, as the amount of information to be ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

Researchers have developed a new model to calculate the chance of aliens' existence in our universe. The possibility of other ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

The third is why do humans develop so slowly with an extended childhood unlike ... that biocultural reproduction–both ...

The slow loris, a nocturnal primate from tropical regions, is often seen as one of nature's "dumbest" animals due to its ...

Bloomberg's Cameron Crise discusses disparities in the evolution of terminal-rate pricing in STIR and inflation-linker markets since before the GFC.

showed consistent vowel forms across languages, while disgust and joy did not. This insight could deepen our understanding of ...