The question of origins has long bedevilled the study of pandemics. In pre-modern times, outbreaks of infectious disease were ...

New experimental results have cast doubt on earlier proposals suggesting that spherical, cell-like membranes could form in ...

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born ...

The Brookbush Institute continues to enhance education with new articles, new courses, a modern glossary, an AI Tutor, ...

By scanning brains while people actively took intelligence tests, neuroscientists discovered that high test scores are linked ...

A comprehensive new study suggests that females require a much larger biological and cognitive shift to develop autism than males do. The findings help explain why the condition is diagnosed ...

Why are 90% of people right-handed and 10% left-handed? A modification of the well-known fighting hypothesis aims to explain ...

Oxygen isotope analysis of lunar soil shows meteorites delivered only a limited amount of water to the Earth–Moon system ...

New research led by a University of Wyoming archaeologist near an ancient encampment in South America challenges a relatively new but widely accepted theory that the people who made and used Clovis ...

Humans and animals like the same sounds, new research reveals, proving Charles Darwin correct. The findings show that people showed preferences for calls that other species find the most attractive.

Humans and animals share a taste for the same sounds, new research has revealed, backing up a theory first suggested by ...

It’s unclear how a new date for the site might affect the human story. Since Monte Verde, researchers have uncovered sites in North America that predate the Clovis people, such as Cooper’s Ferry in ...