Scientists have uncovered a new theory for why most humans are right-handed. A major study suggests upright walking and a rapidly expanding...

Animals are rapidly changing their behavior to survive new environments. This flexibility allows them to adapt quickly without physical cha...

Leaf-cutter ants engage in sophisticated agriculture, cultivating fungi for sustenance in underground chambers. This intricate symbiosis ex...

Life in nature is not just about survival. Organisms often help their relatives reproduce. This is explained by inclusive fitness theory. I...

Honeybees are showing surprising intelligence. Scientists discovered these insects understand the concept of zero. They can also perform ba...

Psychologist Susan Pinker argues that the strongest predictor of living to 100 is not diet or exercise, but human connection. Drawing on re...

At times, the notion has proved stronger than the evidence at hand. In 1963, archaeologists in Colorado unearthed the nearly 10,000-year-ol...

The results of this research have recently been published in the open-source journal, PLoS One, in a paper co-authored by Dr. Souptick Chan...

They are also less likely to transmit the disease to others.

London, Dec 30 (IANS) Despite the assumption that English is the lingua franca of global science, one-third of new conservation science doc...

New York, Nov 13 (IANS) Interacting school students with live creatures like fish in classroom can help them to improve attitude towards sc...

It found that the behaviour of individuals can often evolve to be determined by a set of inherited genetic tendencies that predict relation...

Researchers at Simon Fraser University in Canada found that women who give birth to more surviving children exhibited longer telomeres.

Their latest findings show how the cognitive effects of THC are triggered by a pathway which is separate from some of its other effects.

Until now, the only class of arthropods not represented by a sequenced genome was the myriapods, which include centipedes and millipedes.

However, the tennis test is stronger evidence that the patient is indeed conscious, to the extent that they can follow commands using their...

A study done by researchers has revealed that there is morphological and genetic evidence to show the presence of multiple evolutionary dis...