The history of the hominid family, like that of other mammals, means diversification, competition, and, sometimes, extinction. Paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall explains why we need a phylogeny-based definition of the genus Homo that includes our sp ...

This is the story of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and crimes against humanity.

According to a spectacularly misleading article in the Telegraph: Scientists discover how to ‘upload knowledge to your brain’ Feeding knowledge directly into your brain, just like in sci-fi classic The Matrix, could soon take as much effort as fallin ...

Syrian children explain in stark terms how the war has changed their lives, including the loved ones that they have lost.

Genome analysis shows mass migration of Stone Age farmers from Fertile Crescent and Bronze Age settlers from eastern Europe was foundation of Celtic population

Robotics expert Mel Siegel on the features that a machine must have to be called a robot, previous studies, and the future of the field

The ASASSN-15lh supernova is radiating 10 times more energy than our sun will produce in the next 10 billion years, and it's only 3.8 billion light-years away.

People think the Russian president is a hard-nosed realist. But the danger is that he’s nothing of the kind.

Nearly a decade after the former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko died a painful death, a final inquiry has found there was a "strong probability" the Russian state was behind his assassination.

Data from NASA's Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane.

We like to think that all our smarts are contained in our brain, but researchers at Umea University in Sweden have found that the neurons that extend into our fingertips perform the same sorts of calculations that take place in the cerebral cortex.

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The probability that the Universe exists in a stable state may be greater than previously thought.

Smoking high-potency, 'skunk-like' cannabis may damage a white matter structure in the brain key for communication between the right and left hemispheres, a new study found.

This movie provides a single-cell resolution top view of a developing zebrafish embryo from 2-cell stage to 24 hours post fertilization (hpf). Movie is a continous sequence of 700 images with time stamp (unit:hours and minutes post fertilization) at ...

A photo project by Magnus Wennman

While the attacks in Paris galvanized international efforts against ISIS, Syria’s civil war approaches its fifth year. For the residents of Douma, about 10 kilometres northeast of Damascus, life goes on best it can. Here are 10 photos of life in the ...

In 1655 the English mathematician John Wallis published a book in which he derived a formula for pi as the product of an infinite series of ratios. Now researchers from the University of Rochester, in a surprise discovery, have found the same formula ...

There is much that you can do to keep cognitively sharp.

I’ve been involved in a few discussions of late on science-based sites around yon web on antibiotic resistance and agriculture–specifically, the campaign to get fast food giant Subway to stop using meat raised on antibiotics, and a graphic by CommonG ...