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Researchers at Dalhousie University are looking into an age-old question from farmers: when an animal makes a noise, what is it trying to say? Led by Dr. Ghader Manafiazar, the team at Dalhousie ...

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like cooking food, staying warm, and protection from predators. For thousands ...

The secret to differences between modern humans and Neanderthals appears to have as much to do with which genes are switched on and which are switched off as it does with differences in the raw ...

Imagine a time when Earth was a molten, volcanic wasteland, heavily bombarded by colossal asteroids. We’ve long feared these cosmic impacts as destroyers of life, but what if they were the key to our ...

Many New Year's traditions are meant to bring prosperity in the months ahead, but America's relationship to wealth is complicated. As billionaires' influence has grown, so too has skepticism. In a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Community-supported media has had a tough year with the defunding of the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, created by ...

Findings about our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals, continue to surprise us, especially those from 2025. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Neanderthals and humans mated millennia ago, and their legacy lives on in us today. Here's how. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds PBS and NPR, announced a change to its operations in the coming months after Donald Trump signed an executive order defunding the television ...