Scientific discoveries and research
If you've watched popular movies or television shows in the last decade, there's a good chance you've found an Easter egg or two: not an actual bright...
In a happy twist of fate, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope witnessed a comet in the act of breaking apart. The chance of that happening while Hubble watc...
Mass spectrometry is already a powerful tool for determining what kind and how many molecules are present in a given sample. But most instruments stil...
Long before pottery, before agriculture, when the first villages took shape, people in the Levant were already molding clay with their hands, carefull...
A mosquito finds its target with the help of certain cues in its environment, such as a person's silhouette and the carbon dioxide they exhale. Now re...
A new University of Missouri study suggests mental health policies can play a significant role in how Americans choose political candidates. Past scho...
A new study on ancient societies from around the world is rewriting what we thought we knew about democracy. A team of researchers analyzed archaeolog...
Fear-eliciting images of modern and ancestral threats are equally likely to evoke physiological reactions, despite their distinct evolutionary origins...
Neanderthals probably used birch tar for multiple functions, including treating their wounds, according to a study published in the open-access journa...
Recent data showing an increase in lead exposure and deaths among critically endangered California condors seems to fly in the face of decades of cons...
Monitoring the populations of one of nature's slower creatures could become faster, thanks to the University of Georgia. UGA researchers have develope...
Whether you're striding with purpose, swaggering with confidence, or trudging slowly along the street, the way you walk can reveal how you're feeling,...
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