2+ hour, 40+ min ago   (628+ words) When did our ability to communicate advance beyond grunting and gesturing? Clues to the genesis of our linguistic abilities may lie in extraordinary choices by ordinary hominins The question is when language emerged, evolving beyond animal modes of communication such…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago   (628+ words) A new open-source software package promises to transform how biologists hunt for the genetic switches that separate males from females in species with no reference genome....

3+ hour, 18+ min ago   (86+ words) Meat has shaped human history in ways few other foods can claim. From the earliest days of hominin evolution, regular consumption of animal flesh supplied the dense energy that scientists believe fueled the expansion of the human brain, the development…...

3+ hour, 29+ min ago   (328+ words) Three claims, three vocabularies, one structure. A universe steered by focused intention. A quantum field …...

8+ hour, 8+ min ago   (325+ words) Pregnancy can last just a few weeks in some animals, while others carry their young for many months. But there is one animal whose pregnancy is so long that it can stretch to almost two years. So, which animal has…...

5+ hour, 13+ min ago   (620+ words) Every heartbeat, every twitch of a fin, and every dividing cell in a fish embryo depends on a molecular machine so ancient that its origins trace back billions of years. Oxidative phosphorylation, or OXPHOS, is the process by which cells…...

6+ hour, 37+ min ago   (671+ words) When the tide recedes from a rocky Mediterranean shore, the mussels clinging to the stones simply close their shells and wait. Inside those shells, oxygen levels plummet, carbon dioxide accumulates, and the entire body shifts into a biochemical holding pattern…...

6+ hour, 50+ min ago   (710+ words) Within hours of drawing their first breath, newborn babies may already display one of the most quietly provocative differences in human psychology....

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (648+ words) One of the oldest known 3D animal fossils dating back 560 million years has been found in a sheep field. The astonishing discovery of the creature that looked like a "goo-filled bag" when it was alive was made in northern Norway. Scientists…...

12+ hour, 11+ min ago   (840+ words) A bizarre belemnite fossil from Wyoming has been identified as a new species, revealing the thickest known member of this ancient squid relative group. There’s a fossil in a Wyoming museum drawer that spent two decades being, essentially, a mystery…...