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Posted 04.19.2013
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Science
By Paul Gabrielsen For everyone who's looked into an infant's sparkling eyes and wondered what goes on in its little fuzzy head, there's now an answ...
I would know a whole lot less if Wikipedia didn't exist. A day rarely passes by without something piquing my interest and then suddenly I'm learning all about the mating rituals of porpoises.
By Michael Balter The 2013 Academy Awards were, as always, as much about making appearances as about making films, as red carpet watchers noted fa...
By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 02/26/2013 03:08 PM EST on LiveScience Pain isn't always a pain. Sometimes it can actually feel...
Like the soul, the Voocule is not something that can be actually seen or picked up or even located. Therefore, it may require some mental gymnastics to understand.
By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 12/19/2012 06:51 PM EST on LiveScience Human hands may have evolved their unique shape in order...
By S.E. Gould Everything on earth is made up of combinations of different elements – all of which can be found on the periodic table. Considering ...
Have you ever made what seemed like a cool-headed and clever decision, only to look back later and wonder what you were thinking of? When some entirely likely disaster strikes, do you find yourself asking how this could possibly have happened? Welcome to being blindsided.
This question originally appeared on Quora. By John David Ward, teacher I don't know whether what's mind-blowing to me is what's mi...
By Kate Wong Readers of this blog may have noticed that I’m obsessed with a recently discovered member of the human family tree: the nearly two m...
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 06/13/2012 01:13 PM EDT on LiveScience Peer far enough back in the human family linea...
By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 06/04/2012 03:14 PM EDT on LiveScience The ancestors of monkeys, apes and humans may have o...
What makes you you? Psychologists say human personalities include what they call "the big five” traits: agreeableness, openness to experience, ext...
By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/19/2012 03:15 PM EDT on LiveScience Ancient humans have changed the landscape around thei...
We humans have speech because spoken words have culturally evolved to sound like nature. We speak because we've been nature-harnessed, not because we evolved to speak.
WASHINGTON -- Were the Neanderthals simply crowded out by the ancestors of modern humans? That's the theory of a pair of British researchers, who say...
I've always been a dog guy. I think most sane people feel the same way. I'll go so far as to say that 98% of all house cats would kill you if they could.
Eating meat and watching True Blood doesn't always sit well, so in the spirit of the conscientious Bill Compton, our Sunday's have gone vegan.
WASHINGTON — We have met Neanderthal and he is us – at least a little. The most detailed look yet at the Neanderthal genome helps answer o...
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with this one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver I just re...
Yann Arthus-Bertrand's method is to get somewhere high, usually a helicopter or a paraglider, and point his camera downward. The results are usually magnificent, and last year, they inspired a film.
Imagine watching TV without a screen or communicating with friends without facebook. Would you have an implant to be smarter? What's the status of the science? When do humans become obsolete?
A common theme runs through several films slated to hit theaters soon: the earth and its fate. "Take heed," the filmmakers seem to be saying, "or these will be our struggles."
I didn't spend a night at the museum for two good reasons: It closed at 5:45 p.m. and I am not, for better or for worse, Ben Stiller.
Some people argue that humans are merely crazy apes, but the counter-argument, that humans and apes are dramatically different, is not easily dismissed. So, how different are we from other animals?
