Beneath every footstep lies a world most of us will never see. A single teaspoon of soil, scooped from a healthy forest floor, holds more living organisms than there are humans on the planet, bacteria...
Image: The Guardian/Jenny Vickers A former dairy farm in the UK has undergone a striking transformation after humans stepped back and allowed natural processes to reshape the land. At Heal Somerset, a...
At a cave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, thousands of small reptile bones accumulated alongside the remains of animals hunted and gathered by people more than 11,000 years ago. For years, their presen...
Ancient Humans Were Thinking In Patterns 60,000 Years Ago, Study Of Eggshells Suggests. (Credit: Pierre-Jean Texier, Diepkloof project) What if some of the skills students learn in classrooms today —...
An insect outbreak has left Siberia’s forests dead while also transforming the region into a tinderbox where wildfires are now spreading beyond human control. The trees burning across Krasnoyars...
Chimpanzee Sultan (Image Credit: Zentrum für Geschichte der Psychologie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg via University of Auckland) More than a century ago, a small group of chimpanzees hel...
Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could “induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people” Joseph Weizenbaum set out to prove that computers could imitate conve...
The earliest months of Neanderthal life have remained one of the least understood chapters of human evolution. Fossils from adults and older children have revealed the distinctive features that set th...
A. R. Rahman has reacted to the online controversy surrounding Imtiaz Ali’s ‘Main Vaapas Aaunga’, which some social media users have labeled “anti-national.” The composer shared a satirical Instagram ...
Red and orange hair have long been one of humanity’s most distinctive traits. Found in only a small percentage of the global population, the fiery shades are typically linked to genetics, fair s...