A chimpanzee named Juma turned out to be quite the trendsetter. He picked up a blade of grass and stuck it in his ear, a ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

The drug is Ambroxol. It’s been used for decades to treat respiratory ailments by thinning mucus and easing coughs. But now, ...

The OTOF gene encodes otoferlin, a protein that plays a critical role in hearing. It helps transmit sound signals from the ...

In a new study, participants from China, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom consistently rated men with low-to-moderate body ...

Poveglia is a layered time capsule of tragedy. It was once a bustling community which was turned into a quarantine zone, then into a psychiatric hospital, then fell into ruin. And while it’s often ...

Two processes sculpt the bones of the face: bone formation and bone resorption. Picture tiny sculptors adding and shaving away material, cell by cell. By examining where and how these molecular ...

This is one reason why the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations now specifically endorse filtered coffee over unfiltered. Nordic countries love their coffee and opting for filtered was considered a ...

Credit: Pixabay. Brewing tea is a ritual as old as civilization, a moment of calm amid the storm of daily life. But scientists now say that it might be doing more than just waking us up and ...

The results might surprise you. People in industrial societies slept an average of 7.1 hours per night, compared to just 6.4 hours in non-industrial societies. Sleep efficiency — the percentage ...

Illustration by Midjourney. If you’ve ever worried that a long break from the gym would erase months of hard-won gains, new research from Finland offers some comfort. Scientists at the ...

One answer lies in something Casasanto and his team call “left-handed exceptionalism.” Lefties make up just about 10% of the ...