We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...

Doctors test for them within minutes of birth, because these simple motions reveal complex brain development. Primitive reflexes show how deeply survival is written into our biology ...

Lead image: This artist’s conception depicts how the formation of the universe’s first stars may have appeared. Dense clouds of hydrogen and helium likely collapsed inward, increasing pressure and ...

She came up with the term as the title of a 1990 conference but saw its later popularity as a little superficial.

Choreographed by Jenni Large, ADT’s Faraway is a rich, erotically charged work, the dance equivalent of howling orgiastically at the moon.

A woman who died some 2,500 years ago survived a complex jaw surgery – a remarkable medical feat for her era. Estimated to be 25 to 30 years old at death, she was found partially mummified in a wooden ...

On Feb. 15, we remember how Susan B. Anthony spearheaded one of America's most significant nonviolent political changes.

BackgroundThe emergence of the first biopolymers and their building blocks on the early Earth is considered a key moment in the origin of life (OoL ...

The refusal to repatriate women and children—all Australian citizens—trapped in Syrian concentration camps constitutes a historic assault on the core democratic right of citizenship, without which no ...

First of two parts FOR once, I digress and take a breather. The West Philippine Sea controversy has been raging and there is ...

Understanding how a healthy brain works can provide insight into how it fails, too. Scientists hope that studying organoids derived from humans with neurodevelopmental disorders — particularly ...