Our brains glow. We can’t see it happen with the naked eye, but scientists can measure extremely subtle light passing through the skull – and a recent study has found that this light changes depending on what we’re doing.
All living tissue…
Thunderstorm safety often comes down to some common sense. Do not go outside or…
An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of the practice, which was often led by women, and was just as crucial to surviving and thriving as hunting
A new combination of drugs, including a compound present in chocolate, can treat several
A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped…
Humans living on the Iberian Peninsula during the late Neolithic period may have eaten their neighbors in one grim and grisly act of social violence, new evidence reveals.
At least 11 individuals – including children and adolescents –…
Those ‘crow’s feet’ at the corners of your eyes really do deserve to be called laughter lines, according to a recent study by researchers from Binghamton University in New York.
Using skin samples from people aged 16 to 91, the team confirmed…
Some Yellowstone National Park visitors may be keeping an eye out for Sasquatch — a cryptid believed to dwell in the deep forests of North America. At the same time, the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YSO) — part of the United States…
Not all giant meat-eating dinosaurs were the terrifying, bone-crushing predators we imagine.
A new study published in the journal Current Biology has found that while many theropods – the group of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs that includes…
What animal kills more humans than any other? The answer is not rhinos, or tigers, or even sharks. The answer is the tiny mosquito, vector for the Plasmodium parasite that causes malaria.
Each year more than 600,000 people die from the…