“These objects collect the dark matter that helps them become a dark dwarf. The more dark matter you have around, the more ...

A chimpanzee named Juma turned out to be quite the trendsetter. He picked up a blade of grass and stuck it in his ear, a ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

The drug is Ambroxol. It’s been used for decades to treat respiratory ailments by thinning mucus and easing coughs. But now, ...

The OTOF gene encodes otoferlin, a protein that plays a critical role in hearing. It helps transmit sound signals from the ...

In a new study, participants from China, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom consistently rated men with low-to-moderate body ...

The Neutral Theory Gould’s argument clashed with traditional views of evolution as a process guided primarily by natural selection. Instead, he highlighted the interplay between randomness and ...

Poveglia is a layered time capsule of tragedy. It was once a bustling community which was turned into a quarantine zone, then into a psychiatric hospital, then fell into ruin. And while it’s often ...

A Turning Point in Linguistic History The discovery of the CLV people as the missing link in the Indo-European story marks a turning point in a 200-year-old quest. Earlier genetic studies had ...

Positioned centrally, the stone is thought to have been a key feature in the Stonehenge layout, around which other stones were arranged. Its specific placement and orientation suggest it may have ...

In infants older than 12 months, the hippocampus showed significantly more activity when they viewed images they recognized. This “subsequent memory effect” was particularly strong in the ...

One answer lies in something Casasanto and his team call “left-handed exceptionalism.” Lefties make up just about 10% of the ...