The French philosopher takes phenomena such as mass consumption, aesthetics, leisure and the kitsch to examine our world and ...

If you have a receipt in your wallet right now, it may be carrying more than proof of purchase. The thin thermal paper used ...

A small brown mouse has just done something no mammal has ever done before: give birth on Earth after spending part of its ...

Boulenger’s backpack frog uses one of the strangest reproductive strategies in the amphibian world. Females carry fertilized ...

Attorney Carol Lockwood joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss Assisted Reproductive Technology law, the role ...

Balanophora may look like a mushroom, but instead of being a fungus, it's a parasitic plant with rare traits that puzzle ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...