Humans are the smartest creatures on the planet and we’re by far the best at solving all sorts of cognitive tasks. Or are we?

Some space images have become timeless icons of our exploration of the cosmos. Take the famous photo of the Pillars of ...

The researchers led by Dr. Eleanor Raffan zoomed in on the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) gene, which plays a crucial role in ...

Two new studies have revealed why some cats are orange – an enduring enigma of genetics, until now.

They say you can identify the leopard by its spots, but as it turns out, you can also identify it through its unique roar. Leopards, notoriously difficult to monitor due to their elusive nature, could ...

Many known languages, for example, have no words for numerals above 2 or 3. A linguist who curated a database of the world’s ...

The ancient Romans had a profound relationship with wine. It was not just a beverage for them but an essential part of daily ...

But zoom in a bit more and those specs become goats standing on the seemingly vertical construction. So what’s happening?!

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of reionization. It holds clues to the first stars and galaxies, and perhaps the nature ...

From the air we breathe to the water we drink, microplastics infiltrate every corner of our lives—but what happens when they ...

Present-Day Plate Boundaries: This model improves upon existing models, incorporating attributes from geophysical, ...

Greensboro. He has authored twelve books and more than 180 academic articles, which have been translated into Arabic, Chinese ...