Monkey communication Marmoset monkeys use names to refer to each other, according to a study published in the journal Science ...

People have long projected stories onto the poignant casts of Pompeii’s victims. A new study uses ancient DNA analysis to ...

Why is human culture -- the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations -- so much more powerful than animal cultures?

It's common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has ...

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors, say researchers.

Although recent scientific and medical breakthroughs have transformed many people’s lives, there is still quite a bit we do ...

In recent years, there has been a rising interest in combining traditional natural medicines with essential nutrients to ...

Several science and health experts are in Calgary to kick off a weeklong campaign aimed at educating Canadians about the ...

First identified by archaeologists in 1978, the site was initially found to be home to at least 70 hominin footprints ...

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

New study by researchers in China and US finds excessive Immunoglobulin G in the body can accelerate ageing and intensify inflammation.

Light as a healing tool remains part science and part mystery. Ancient practices using sunlight laid the groundwork for a field that has now evolved into sophisticated therapies for both mental and ...