Mosquitoes captured in the remnants of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil predominantly feasted on humans instead of other animals ...

The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of ...

Scientists found that some mosquitoes really are targeting humans more than other food sources, but it could be a matter of ...

Summary: Researchers found that Italian brown bears living near humans evolved unique genetic and behavioral traits. The ...

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At Stanford, a treatment that aims magnetic pulses at the brain is showing results for people with treatment-resistant depression. It’s called SAINT, and here’s how it works.

Barry Smith has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for his research on multisensory experience, which underpins the creation of this exhibition on the senses, Stuck in ...

Study finds plant poison was used on ancient arrows, pointing to sophisticated hunting methods used 60,000 years ago ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

Around 18,000 years ago, ice age people in what is now Ukraine likely weathered the extremely harsh climate by building parts of their shelters out of mammoth bones, a new study finds. The mammoth ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 million years ago was Homo erectus. But in recent years, a debate has ...