The roundworm C. elegans is a well-established laboratory model system. While the worm is a fairly simple living system, it is complicate...

World Sleep Day is March 15 this year. The annual event is a celebration of sleep and a call to action on issues related to sleep, includ...

“Due to the global slowdown in fertility, this is probably the biggest cohort of young people we will ever see,” says anthropologist Caro...

At the Liang Bua cave site, paleoanthropologist Matthew Tocheri, left, measures a modern giant rat with the assistance of Bonefasius Sag...

Tiny stone flakes such as the one above, from a site in South Africa called Boomplaas, may have helped some humans survive the last period...