It may take a while to become as famous as Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, or Monument Valley, but the 12,000-acre Chiricahua ...

Say what you will about Instagram, but the social media platform has undeniably contributed to the furthering of scientific ...

Our early human ancestors telling fireside stories may have propelled the development of speech by facilitating discussion of ...

Far from being a brief stopover, the team says the site was a base camp, inhabited by prehistoric humans on and off for over ...

Artificial intelligence is already being used for facial recognition, but how good is it? In lab conditions, it’s extraordinarily precise, correctly identifying people 99 percent of the time. In the ...

Of all our ancient relatives, the Denisovans might be the most mysterious. While fossils from these archaic hominins were unearthed nearly half a century ago, they were only determined to be a ...

Many years ago, evolutionary psychologist Nick Humphrey met a family in Turkey with eight children who were unable to walk upright. Due to a genetic disease, they could only get around on all fours.

The cries of babies are not just a nuisance. They are calls for help, honed by evolution to spur an immediate, ingrained response. When a human mother hears her baby crying, her brain elicits a “do-or ...

Biologists have long debated snake origins. Did they evolve in the sea, underground, or on land, given that today they inhabit all those environments? Now, an exceptionally preserved Cretaceous fossil ...

Philosopher Shannon Vallor and I are in the British Library in London, home to 170 million items—books, recordings, newspapers, manuscripts, maps. In other words, we’re talking in the kind of place ...

One day, our sun will collapse into a superdense object about the size of Earth—a white dwarf. While our sun is an orangish-yellow, the resulting white dwarf will be… white obviously, right? Not ...

Weather conditions change second by second, which makes it a particularly dynamic subject for photographers. The violent and capricious nature of climate also makes for a fascinating theme for a photo ...