Scientists found Amazon trees may share defense genes, helping them survive insects and explain extreme rainforest diversity.

Hotter temperatures and harsher droughts could cause Indigenous societies to lose many of the species they have used for medicine, rituals and more, scientists found. By Raymond Zhong and Flávia ...

Eucalyptus trees have been scattered across California since the 1850s, when they were brought over by Australians flocking ...

Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, still reshapes how scientists explain human evolution nearly 50 years ...

We can’t protect what we do not know, and now that we have confirmed that this other species of pangolin exists, we can use ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Great apes and humans all laugh with a steady, even rhythm, and a new study finds it has barely changed in 15 million years.

Summary: Laughter is a universal human trait shared by all living great apes, including chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. However, the exact evolutionary trajectory of laughter, and how ...

Humans are the only species known to use fully symbolic language: a system capable of expressing abstract ideas, imaginary worlds and endless combinations of meaning. But how did we get there? The ...

A prehistoric human known as Homo erectus was the first of our forerunners to leave Africa, crossing continents and ultimately roaming the planet for almost 2 million years. But with scarce genetic ...

Abstract: Neural architecture search (NAS) has made remarkable progress in various field tasks and is also used in fields like cognitive diagnosis (CD) in intelligent education. Due to the ...