Most Democratic-led states say they will continue to universally recommend and administer the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, despite new guidance against it issued last week by a federal vaccine advisory panel handpicked by Health and Human…
For more than a century, the Hjortspring boat has carried a lingering mystery. The 2,400-year-old war canoe — discovered on the Danish island of Als and intentionally sunk after an attack involving roughly 80 warriors — offered extraordinary…
Deep in the mountains of southern Brazil, a bright orange frog, just over a centimeter long, hops into the spotlight.
The tiny pumpkin toadlet is a whole new, toad-like species of frog, never formally described before.
The highly endemic…
A new study on sperm whale communication reveals that these animals produce sounds like human vowels. The research, published in the journal Open Mind, was part of Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), an ongoing effort to listen to and…
Groundbreaking research has revealed the earliest known evidence of human fire-making in the…
The taming of fire is credited with sparking humanity’s evolutionary journey towards our modern levels of intelligence. Fire gave early humans access to a broader range of safe foods, fueling the development of larger brains and paving the…
Many of us think of our own species as a monogamous one. We select a mate, and we stick with them, or so we tend to believe. But are modern humans really as monogamous as we assume, and are we any more monogamous than, say, a deer mouse or a wild…
Recent excavations in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have revealed that some enslaved…
If someone mentions criminal gangs, you might think of drug trafficking or financial crime….
Changes to tiny structures in the brain that can be detected in MRI scans could serve as a…