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In the millions of years over which humans have been evolving, brain size has tripled, and behavior has become exponentially...

In January 2021, mathematician Hannah Fry was diagnosed with cervical cancer. When she received her diagnosis, the oncologist told her...

In a galaxy hanging out in the early Universe less than 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, the James...

A shopping mall in Texas, a private school in Tennessee, a bank in Kentucky and a dance studio in California:...

In the fall of 2017, Mehtaab Sawhney, then an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined a graduate reading...

The "dissociative anesthetic" ketamine looks ever more promising as a safe and effective treatment for intractable depression.A new randomized trial...

BULGARIA, HUNGARY AND ROMANIA The Yamnaya people, long associated with horses, are now the earliest known riders. Skeletons from around...

This contraction means the upper atmosphere is becoming less dense, which in turn reduces drag on satellites and other objects...

A team of archaeologists has found that our obsession with hair removal can be traced back to Roman times.Archaeologists working...

After years of debate over whether non-invasively zapping the brain with electrical current can improve a person’s mental functioning, a...