Will humanity extend into the far future? It's likely many of us think it should. The problem is that each of us, individually and collectively, act otherwise—we are destroying the environment and ...
Researchers have found new data to support the "drunken monkey" hypothesis; the idea that human attraction to alcohol may be ...
Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, the number of confirmed exomoons—and exorings—is still zero. But ...
Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...
Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...
The team calculated that the mosquitos likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some 2 ...
The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group—including those that transmit ...
Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...
They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...
Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.
Sci-fi cinema has changed greatly throughout the decades, and one can track its evolution from classics like Metropolis to ...
A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...