Scientists believed we evolved to respond to alarming screams faster than non-alarming ones, but experiments show our brains may be wired differently.
Modern humanlike brains may have evolved surprisingly late, about 1.7 million years ago, a new study suggests.
Blood clots should be listed as a possible side effect of AstraZeneca’s vaccine, but its benefits still outweigh the risks, experts say.
People default to addition when solving puzzles and problems, even when subtraction works better. That could underlie some modern-day excesses.
DNA from ancient fossils suggests interbreeding regularly occurred between the two species by about 45,000 years ago, two studies find.
Artists’ intuition instead of science drive most facial reconstructions of extinct species. Some researchers hope to change that.
Important insights into the particle-filtering properties of different fabrics also offer a sense of the unseen, textured world of face masks.
The leading hypothesis is that the coronavirus spread to people from bats via a yet-to-be-identified animal, but no animals have tested positive so far.
Vaccinated 12- to 15-year-olds developed higher levels of coronavirus antibodies compared with vaccinated 16- to 25-year-olds from a previous trial.