Ancient DNA Reveals Comprehensive Genomic History of the “Cradle of Civilization”
A comprehensive genomic history of the so-called “Southern Arc,” a region spanning southeastern Europe and Western Asia and long considered to be the “cradle of…
A comprehensive genomic history of the so-called “Southern Arc,” a region spanning southeastern Europe and Western Asia and long considered to be the “cradle of…
A recent study has identified brain network cores with strong bidirectional connections. Science may be getting closer to figuring out where consciousness resides in the…
People don’t realize how enjoyable it is to sit and think. According to research from the American Psychological Association, people often underestimate how much they…
According to new research from the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder), just five U.S. universities have trained 1-in-8 tenure-track faculty members serving at…
When it comes to showing affection towards people, many dogs are naturals. Now a report in the journal Ecology and Evolution reveals that the remarkable…
Livestock and fish could be fed more agricultural by-products, freeing up more food for people. Even with millions around the world facing the threat of…
Discovery sheds light on the tuatara, the last living member of a once-diverse group of reptiles that has almost entirely been supplanted by lizards. A…
Scientists Develop Painless Tattoos That Can Be Self-Administered Imagine getting painlessly tattooed by a skin patch containing microscopic needles, instead of sitting in a tattoo…
Paleontologists have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart – the oldest ever found – alongside a separate fossilized liver, stomach, and intestine in an ancient jawed fish,…
By combining neuroscience with molecular biology, scientists have discovered that a well-known gene works to withstand psychiatric stress. Researchers have found that Tob, a well-known…
Ancient DNA from an American domesticated horse lends credence to shipwreck folklore. An abandoned Caribbean colony discovered centuries later and a case of mistaken identity…
A new study of coastal geography finds that the lost islands mentioned in Welsh folklore and poetry are plausible. New evidence on the evolution of…
There is no one-size-fits-all brain model. Machine learning has aided scientists in understanding how the brain generates complex human characteristics, revealing patterns of brain activity…
A new study reveals that Sahelanthropus tchadensis, the oldest representative species of humanity, was bipedal. It is believed that the development of bipedalism was a…
Rapid eye movements during REM sleep represent gaze shifts in dreaming mice. According to a new study published in the journal Science, the characteristic eye…
Reptiles had one heck of a coming-out party just over 250 million years ago during the end of the Permian period and the start of…
China has set a new world record for the strongest steady magnetic field. On August 12, the hybrid magnet of the Steady High Magnetic Field Facility…
Researchers demonstrated that the brains of people playing an online game together were synchronized without physical presence. Online gaming and other types of online social…