A Catalan rock shelter preserves a rare record of the transition from hunter-gathering to farming. For thousands of years, people repeatedly…

New modeling suggests that tens of thousands of languages were spoken between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, and that their decline…

By expanding dynamical systems theories to account for forgetting rates, attraction levels, and reaction patterns, math can now identify ‘relationship danger…

Decades of financial hardship were associated with poorer cognition and brain health later in life. Years of persistent financial strain may…

Parenting may have evolved by repurposing the brain’s ancient hunger circuits. Long before parenting became widespread, many animals simply laid eggs…

Researchers found that the enzyme acid ceramidase can make aging cells more vulnerable to ferroptosis, a form of cell death, and…

A frozen-core optical fiber has revealed a powerful new way to control interactions between light and sound. Molten lava hardens into…

Results from an experiment at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams answer a fundamental question about the structure of atomic nuclei…