News

  1. Anthropology

    Evolution’s Buggy Ride: Lice leap boldly into human-origins fray

    A controversial genetic analysis of lice raises the possibility that some type of physical contact occurred between ancient humans and Homo erectus, probably in eastern Asia between 50,000 and 25,000 years ago.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Humans

    Nobel prizes: The sweet smell of success

    Nobel prizes in the sciences went to research on olfactory genes, subatomic particles, and the molecular kiss of death.

    By Christen Brownlee, Sid Perkins and Alexandra Goho
  3. Animals

    Separate Vacations: Birds winter apart but return in sync

    Mated pairs of black-tailed godwits may fly off to winter refuges a thousand kilometers apart but can still arrive back at their breeding site the next spring within a few days of each other.