A new device for creating individual "phonons" — vibrational quanta — could give rise to the acoustic equivalent of lasers.

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...

A new genetic analysis of Neanderthal remains from Stajnia Cave offers an unusually detailed glimpse into a small group that lived together roughly 100,000 years ago.

Language may feel like one of the most distinctly human things about you, but the genetic groundwork for it appears to be ...

They can be generated by old pipes and machinery – hence the haunted building link – but also emanate from natural sources ...

We appear to have more in common with our Neanderthal cousins than outward appearances would suggest. New research published ...