The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

But in that short time, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of human ancestors in Europe, Africa, and Asia—which you can see mapped out in the infographic below. The first known fossils ...

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Giant spiders the size of a human hand have had a record breeding year in the UK following conservation efforts. A decade ago, Chester Zoo released thousands of fen raft Spiders after the species ...

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Short-term investments provide low-risk places to park your cash. They tend to offer lower returns than riskier investments. Short-term investments include high-yield savings accounts and CDs ...

In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can distinguish odors ... and the reverse when the latency between the odorants was as short as 60 milliseconds,” Dr. Wen Zhou, lead author of the ...

Miranda Marquit, MBA, is a freelance contributor to Newsweek’s personal finance team. She has an M.A. in journalism from Syracuse University and has been writing and podcasting about money since ...