Fat cell “memory” could help explain why weight loss can be difficult to maintain, according to new research. In experiments using mice and samples of human fat tissue, the scientists found that ...

The paper – co-authored by University of South Florida anthropologist Thomas Pluckhahn and archaeology professor at George ...

This is known as the bouba-kiki effect, a famous psycholinguistic experiment that provides insight into how the human brain ...

Cosmic strings could also be detectable in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) – the leftover radiation from the Big Bang ...

Despite their miniature brains, the ancient "Hobbits" do appear to have made stone tools. Utensils produced by the ...

Humans learned the hard way in 1908 that sometimes classical conditioning can come back to bite you in the arse – or, as it ...

According to Historic UK, the tower was 6.7 meters (22 feet) high and contained around 3,500 barrels of the beer, but this ...

E ven for nature lovers, there are some animals out there that give even the most dedicated naturalist the heebie-jeebies.

As much as we have explored and modeled our planet, there are a number of mysteries that surround the Earth's inner core.

We know that viruses infect cells, but what does that process actually look like? Sure, diagrams can be helpful, but there’s ...

The idea that all members of Homo sapiens (that's us) can trace their ancestry back to Africa is known as the " Out of Africa ...