A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

Nobody likes to wait, and we are willing to pay to avoid it. Expedited shipping, fast food and video streaming are all profitable because they reduce or eliminate that wait. You can test this by ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Have you ever wondered why our universe is made up of something rather than nothing? It can hurt your brain if you think about it too much because if there were nothing you would have no brain—no you ...