There is an old adage that goes, "you are what you eat," meaning that the food you consume helps build your body and fuel your mind. The same is true now as it ever was. When it comes to early humans, studying what they ate and how they obtained high-quality …

It's an extremely rare opportunity to spot a "relic from the birth of the Solar System."

Scientists can't agree on whether the Y chromosome, which has lost 97% of its genes over 300 million years, is doomed to vanish or quietly stable.

A peculiar object dubbed an 'X-ray dot' could help solve the mystery of the 'little red dots' discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope.

When it comes to flying, humans are a bunch of posers. Yes, we’ve built incredible machines capable of dragging us across oceans at 500 miles an hour, but we can’t just get up and fly on our own. Researchers in China may have found a way to trick the brain in…

Now that we’ve recently learned Neanderthals may have been just as intelligent as Homo sapiens, it suddenly makes a lot of sense that a new study found they were carrying around sophisticated tool kits, including tools made from rhinoceros teeth. According to…

The way that the sense of smell works is that olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) are wired up to olfactory receptors (ORs) in the nasal epithelium, from which they send signals to the brain. Once arr…

Scientists have uncovered a hidden “stop-scratching” signal in the nervous system that tells your brain when enough scratching is enough. The discovery centers on a molecule called TRPV4, which acts like part of an internal braking system for itch relief. In …

One of the most seemingly undeniable and obvious things of our Universe could ultimately prove to be an illusion, with no true existence whatsoever.