Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Soprano Renée Fleming is coming to the Tampa Bay area to perform “Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene.” She said the project was born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, when she had just moved to Virginia.

As the Arctic melts and people spend more time there, defining our relationship to sea ice becomes more necessary.

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

In this intellectual age, besides knowledge as IQ and information, we need the philosophy of stoicism to appreciate the necessity of developing our reasoning capacity. The word stoic means a mental ...

Vervet monkeys living on the Caribbean islands of St. Kitts and Nevis are famous for their fondness for alcohol. Their taste ...

A new study examining thousands of bird species across more than a thousand sites worldwide reveals a troubling pattern.