The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to…
NEW YORK (AP) – By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties.
The ability to make something out of nothing may seem uniquely human – a bedrock of creativity…
A team of geologists has found for the first time evidence that two ancient, continent-sized, ultrahot structures hidden beneath the Earth have shaped the planet’s magnetic field for the past 265 million years.
These two masses, known as large…
Baby long-necked dinosaurs might have been the fast food of the Jurassic Period. A detailed food web of the time, reconstructed from fossil data, shows that the young not-yet-giants almost single-handedly supported predator populations of…
Sometimes all it takes is a little whiff to take us back into our past: the scent of our grandparents’ detergent or the smell of our childhood home can induce surprisingly strong emotions. Researchers long assumed the scents of ancient worlds…
Fire transformed human society in obvious ways. Less obvious is the possibility that living alongside flame also shaped human evolution. Over generations, recurring burn injuries may have influenced how our bodies repair tissue and resist…
Earthquakes are typically understood as fractures in the planet’s crust, where tectonic plates grind and strain until rock gives way. But some quakes begin much deeper than those familiar fault lines. A new global survey has mapped a rare class…
Imagination, often seen as a cornerstone of human creativity, allowing children to transform…
