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 ...

Scientists wanted to know why the chatter of Alston’s singing mice sounds so much like human conversation. What they found ...

Amidst the holiday hubbub, the real meaning of Memorial Day can often get lost amidst the excitement of a three-day weekend. While many people are busy hosting barbecues or scouring Memorial Day deals ...

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 ...