A Pennsylvania grandmother was found dead last December after falling into a 30-foot deep…
Conscious choice accounts for only a fraction of what you do each day. The vast majority of your actions are dictated by habit, according to new research published in Psychology & Health.
The study found that around two-thirds of our daily…
To borrow a line from Elton John, it’s a little bit funny, this feeling inside. As I write the article you’re reading, I’m sipping on a potent brew, mixed with ice and tonic water, and I think it’s beginning to hit.
I don’t feel tipsy, exactly,…
Ancient, life-size rock carvings depicting camels, gazelles, and other animals have been…
Ancient, life-size rock carvings depicting camels, gazelles, and other animals have been…
When modern humans arrived in Western Europe, they took their love of shells along with them. That’s what a new analysis in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences seems to suggest, after identifying the oldest shell workshop in all…
“The biggest challenge is how to make this egg extrude half of its chromosomes—and the correct half,” Amato says. “We’re not quite there yet.” The team dubbed their technique “mitomeiosis” and is trying to better understand how…
If you have studied almost any European language, you will have noticed words that felt oddly…
If you were a butterfly, would you rather choose bright, statement colors to warn predators of your toxicity, or hide among the foliage with an appearance adapted to the environment, avoiding detection in the first place?
Since prey animals cannot…
Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild…