Clay ornaments created 15,000 years ago show that symbolic expression began before agriculture. Evidence suggests both children and adults participated, highlighting early social and cultural ...

A growing body of research links heavy social media use not only to declines in mental health but to measurable cognitive ...

Environmental carbon coatings determine charge transfer direction between identical insulating materials, enabling control of ...

Small changes, like a morning walk, can have a big impact. Discover 14 habits that can improve your routine and transform ...

The correlation between smoking and neurodegeneration is well-documented, but the cause has remained a mystery. A new study from the University of Chicago published Wednesday in Science ...

Researchers monitored participants' brain activity to understand how expert echolocators are able to perceive the location of ...

A new book by Gillian Sandstrom explains the research behind why it’s good for us to talk to strangers and how to go about it ...

Hoovering up the bugs via vacuum cleaner can help in residential areas, but trying to repeat this in parks or wooded areas is ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

A new study, published in the Biodiversity Data Journal, provides a profound look at life up to nearly 10 kilometers below ...

Beads modeled on plants and marked by fingerprints suggest symbolism and social learning predate agriculture by thousands of ...

The idea that two conditions at opposite ends of life might be biologically linked is beginning to upend long-standing ...