Join Adventures with Nature Norm to celebrate Valentine’s Day in the Tall Grass Prairie. Norm Gregoire from Shared Legacy ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

Short snouts and a flat profile—within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of ...

Memory is a marker of intelligence. Of all animals, humans possess the most accurate and sophisticated memory. But elephants can recognize as many as 30 traveling companions at a time. They also learn ...

In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

As Humanity moves into the future, traveling to other worlds and exploring genetics, AI, transhumanism, and cybernetics, we may begin to diverge into a thousand post-human species.

We know octopuses are intelligent, but watch as this octopus surprises scientists by finding its own way to solve a problem.

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue, a study of postmortem brains shows.

I bolted awake, clutching a cold, wet towel to my abdomen: my ‘liver wrap,’ applied at bedtime per the instructions on my printed schedule. A faint signal like a just-rung bell — ...

Recent evidence indicates that, despite similarities in molecular and gene expression profiles between analogous neurons in the human and rodent neocortex, ...