Chronic time pressure strains mental health, suggesting relief may come from loosening time’s control rather than managing it ...

Using historical data on women in Finland, researchers discovered that having five or more children—or no children at all—is associated with faster aging and shorter lifespans, compared with having ...

Women most often ranked male bodies more attractive when they exhibited a higher shoulder-to-hip ratio (i.e. a V-shape) and a ...

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed a new way to predict how cancer cells evolve by gaining and losing whole ...

From ancient hybrid humans to older-than-expected fossils, 2021 delivered several discoveries that reshaped the human ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Most amphibians die when exposed to salt — except the crab-eating frog, which thrives with it. Here’s how it rewrote the ...

The study reinforces the idea that sexual selection has been key in forming unique human traits—and that old adages might be ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

It’s easy to assume P. goliah and other giant kangaroos lost their ability to hop as a result of all that bulk. After all, ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

Why are some relationships a flex but not others? May-December romances are as old as time but once every couple of months, a ...