An analysis of a 300,000-year-old double-pointed wooden stick from the Middle Pleistocene site of Schöningen, Germany, shows it was scraped, seasoned...
Archaeologists in Brazil say they have unearthed 25,000- to 27,000-year-old pendants made of bony material from the extinct giant ground sloth Glossotherium...
Do we only hear sounds? Or can we also hear silence? These questions are the subject of a centuries-old philosophical debate between two camps: the perceptual...
Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Oregon, the United States, is one of the oldest human-occupation sites in North America.
Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Oregon,...
Plain caffeine only partially reproduces the effects of drinking a cup of coffee, activating areas of the brain that make you feel more alert but not the...
The sexual division of labor among human foraging populations has typically been recognized as involving males as hunters and females as gatherers. Recent...
Non-figurative markings on the walls of La Roche-Cotard cave in France are the oldest known engravings made by our sister species.
The 57,000-year-old...
Humans whose genetic ancestors lived outside Africa have a small proportion of the genome that traces back to interbreeding events with Neanderthals. To...
French fries are a very popular food commodity across many cultural backgrounds on Earth and as such they may be appreciated by long-term space travelers....
In a randomized clinical trial involving 99 participants with somatic tinnitus, statistically significant reductions in tinnitus loudness level were observed...
The appearance of human eyebrows is not just a matter of grooming but is in the genes. Eyebrow thickness, as any other appearance trait, is highly heritable....
In new research, scientists from Western New England University and elsewhere investigated the potential of grapes to modulate the human microbiome and...
The 153,000-year-old footprint, which was found in the Garden Route National Park, a national park in the Garden Route region of the South African Western...
Multivitamin supplementation holds promise as a safe and accessible approach to maintaining cognitive health in older age, according to new research led...
The dispersal of anatomically modern Homo sapiens out of Africa and across Eurasia provides a unique opportunity to examine the impacts of genetic selection...
Early humans and their hominin relatives had to adapt to new environments to spread out of Africa. In a new study, paleoanthropologists from the Institute...
Scientists with the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium have released a new high-quality collection of reference human genome sequences that includes...
In new research, scientists examined chemical properties locked inside tooth enamel of two Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals and a Magdalenian human from...
