You might think that legendary sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke would've adored the Star Trek franchise, but that wasn't ...

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

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Co-created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, Adult Swim’s ‘Rick and Morty‘ revolves around the eponymous duo as they race ...

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

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human, ...

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

Humanlike fossils have emerged from the deep and twisting caverns of the Rising Star cave system in South Africa over the past decade — and what they have revealed has ...

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Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...