Ever wonder who you mimic in a line of people heading for an exit? In an emergency, do you trail the person right ahead, or ...

Exercise is well known for keeping the brain healthy, but does how we move matter as much as how much we move? In a recent ...

An ancient hearth at El Salt (Spain) is giving up its secrets—not with flames, but with physics. Scientists have already established that Neanderthals used to make fires at this site (spanning from 80 ...

Researchers used to think that HIV and its relatives were pretty recent things, maybe only a few hundred years old. But a ...

We often hear that a curious mind is a sharp mind, particularly as we age. According to scientists, persistent learners are ...

The Neanderthal toolkits found in two Ice Age caves near Le Moustier, in southwestern France, tell a surprising story. Even ...

Imagine a bright, sunny day suddenly turning dark as a solar eclipse sweeps across the sky. Even though humans have watched ...

Think of a small fossil as the equivalent of a homemade video of prehistoric life. Fossils formed when sea organisms began ...

Imagine if we could use strong electromagnetic fields to manipulate the local properties of spacetime—this could have important ramifications in terms of science and engineering. Electromagnetism has ...

During the Sturtian glacial period during the Neoproterozoic Era, Earth underwent periods of global glaciation, which have been described as either "Snowball" and "Slushball" Earth scenarios. In ...

The deep ocean remains largely unexplored, despite containing a large portion of the living organisms and animals on Earth. Among the many creatures populating the deep-sea are so-called Cyclothone, ...