Scientists have uncovered thousands of bacterial DNA fragments hidden inside cockroaches for millions of years. The ...

Analysis of ancient proteins extracted from the fossilized teeth of Homo naledi has revealed a startling new twist in the ongoing mystery of South Africa’s Rising Star cave system. Researchers have ...

Praearcturus gigas was a meter-long Devonian scorpion whose size may reflect a world with few large competitors rather than ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

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There’s an object in space 25 times the size of Jupiter that’s stumped scientists for years. They haven’t been able to figure ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

A new study constructs the first 3D single-cell brain atlas of the lamprey, uncovering the 450-million-year-old molecular blueprint of vertebrates.

All living great apes (orangutans, bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and humans) laugh. However, it’s been unclear how laughter ...

A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved.

Scientists tracking blind Mexican cavefish uncover a striking evolutionary reversal where existing brain circuits are rewired via dopamine to flip behavioral responses to light.

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...