The aye-aye looks like something assembled from a nightmare, yet every unsettling feature it possesses serves a brilliant purpose. This Madagascar lemur has pushed the boundaries of primate evolution ...

However, paleoanthropologists, who look for evidence explaining human evolution, are far from convinced. The chances that ...

Researchers at Mount Sinai have developed the first fully human monoclonal antibody cocktail to provide complete protection against Nipah and Hendra viruses in preclinical models, offering a potential ...

Researchers have produced the first complete wiring diagram of an adult fruit fly brain, tracing roughly 139,255 neurons and ...

The global migration and refugee crisis represents one of the most significant humanitarian challenges of our time, but Anglicans around the world are actively advocating for change and supporting ...

In humans, that supply dwindles until menopause, when it goes bankrupt. Over the past two decades, scientists have identified ...

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey taken down by Komodo dragons.

Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be.

Single neurons in mouse sensorimotor cortex are organized by their activity features into distinct subpopulations with area-spanning footprints whose boundaries align closely with anatomical and ...

When we think about human evolution, we often picture a series of major intellectual milestones. We picture early cave dwellers huddling around a crackling bonfire after discovering how to harness ...