With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

The popular nursery rhyme This Little Piggy is an early childhood memory for many of us. It’s a poem that involves five little piggies, each corresponding to one of our fingers or toes. Kids love it, ...

Our culture has lost something special with the rise of the artificial tree and the fall of so many Christmas tree farms, ...

The scandal among the Somali community in Minnesota highlights a question to consider as we plunge deeper into the AI Age, an age in which some futurists, ...

A microscopic creature from a boiling hot spring in Northern California has just reset the upper limit for how hot complex ...

The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life ...

On a small Indonesian island, a tiny human species once thrived in caves above a lush river valley, only to vanish as the ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

Mansfield, Ohio is quietly proving that Social Security recipients can actually thrive instead of just survive, and nobody’s talking about it because everyone’s too busy complaining about housing ...

"Consciousness," although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one's surroundings and oneself. You sense the world through your eyes, nose, ears and hands, and track ...

By mapping these transitions, researchers bring us closer to understanding why learning flourishes at certain ages, why mental health risks cluster in others, and why late-life cognitive trajectories ...

Stories centered around true love's kiss might be tales as old as time. And, according to a new study, kisses might even have been around before humans walked the earth. Humans kiss each other ...