Lucy

What Rare Fossil Find Reveals About Early Humans

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 03.28.2012

LOS ANGELES -- Lucy, it turns out, had company – another prehuman that also walked but spent more of its time in trees. Until now, there was no...

PHOTOS: Meet Your 'Cave Parents'

Posted 01.06.2012

What did our 'cave parents' look like? Without a family album going back 7 million years, it can be tough to imagine them, especially when all we see ...

Google Loves Lucy

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 10.06.2011

Google's home page on August 6 paid tribute to funny lady Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989), who would have turned 100 on that day. The Emmy Award-winning...

'Peanut' Love

The Guardian | Joe Queenan | Posted 05.25.2011

The premise, after all, is a bit of an inside joke: the central character in Peanuts is the hapless, downbeat Charlie Brown. Americans do not ordinari...

LucyPhone To Do All The Waiting For You

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011

Ramon Nuez

We have an aversion to waiting on line. Unfortunately, it has become an intimate partner in out daily lives. LucyPhone may have found the holy grail to the wait time problem.

Martha and Her: The Best of Friends?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Dr. Irene S. Levine

Martha, you had to be hurt when Mariana testified against you at your trial. But writing this book and exposing the intimacies of your longstanding friendship so publicly, was a particularly bitter form of betrayal.

Ardi: Oldest Human Skeleton Discovered, Bipedalism Origin May Be Revealed

Posted 05.25.2011

Guest post by Jamie Shreeve, National Geographic Magazine Science Editor The big news in the journal Science tomorrow is the discovery of the oldest ...

PHOTOS: Ardi - Earliest Human Ancestor Revealed

Posted 05.25.2011

Check out these recently released images of Ardi, the earliest discovered "human ancestor." (All captions and images courtesy of Science Magazine/...