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

They're regularly depicted as primitive and brutish - but Neanderthals were just as smart as humans, according to a study.

Learn more about Human Ancestor Quickly Evolved Regions (HAQERs), genetic regulatory regions that may have shaped language ...

Based on the book Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann, The Sheep Detectives follows a flock of grieving sheep who become amateur ...

Your dog will also have about 20% to 40% of human’s visual acuity, so anything you can see in the distance is going to look ...

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.

In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen analyzed a human fossil with "an extraordinary form" that he had never ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...

Maternal DNA from Neanderthal teeth found in Stajnia Cave show Neanderthals moved across wide areas of Europe.

Thorin Oakenshield once said in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

For Earth Day, the agency released a delightfully nerdy tool that lets you type in any name or word and see it spelled out in ...