The five divers who died included marine biologist Monica Montefalcone, an award-winning researcher from the University of ...

Researchers reveals how walking on two legs and expanding brain size drove the evolution of human right-handedness.

It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right ...

An international team led by researchers at University of California San Diego and University of California, Riverside has ...

Some words bear an uncanny resemblance to the shape of the object or action they describe. And we tend to process them faster ...

What if meaning is not a mysterious philosophical force, but an adaptive drive humans share with other animals to function ...

We don’t just learn words, we enjoy learning them. And that enjoyment may be key to remembering what we’ve learned.

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

"Project Hail Mary", the new movie based on author Andy Weir's book of the same name, is a wild romp through the cosmos. The film explores many of the same areas of science as Weir's previous work, ...

Editor’s note: On Monday afternoon, Blue Origin chief executive Dave Limp sent employees an email announcing a “new stock option” plan that would allow all employees to participate in and eventually ...