Your arm hairs stand at attention when you’re cold or frightened, creating tiny bumps across your skin in a response that accomplishes absolutely nothing useful for modern humans. This vestigial ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Jahkai Sloane-Marks, Mekhi Slappy and Randy Pichardo-Garcia were a three-headed beast for Susquehanna Township boys basketball in a 68-44 win over Big Spring on Tuesday. Pichardo-Garcia did the bulk ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

As we age, the human brain rewires itself. The process happens in distinct phases, or “epochs,” according to new research, as the structure of our neural networks changes and our brains reconfigure ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

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NEW YORK – You might think of the author of “Goosebumps” as the unofficial mayor of Halloween, but R.L. Stine never cared much for the holiday. Yet, you wouldn’t know that stepping into his home ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving our brain growth and facial flattening. By comparing 3D models of ape skulls ...

This is the perfect wheelhouse. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As someone who read the books religiously as a child and watched ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Author R.L. Stine has been making children laugh and cry with his spooky and often funny children’s books for the last 33 years. The Columbus-area native was back in his ...