A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

Militaries worldwide are grappling with breakneck technological change and the lessons from Ukraine and the Persian Gulf.

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

A viral video of a young gorilla bursting into laughter-like sounds while being gently tickled by a familiar human caretaker ...

A survey of 9,000 listeners across eight countries found that 97% could not correctly identify AI-generated songs during testing, highlighting how sophisticated these systems have become.

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

Fire has mesmerized us for as long as we’ve known how to control it. It warms us, feeds us, and lights our homes. But ...

Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for at least 15 million years, a University of ...