20+ hour, 52+ min ago  (440+ words) Q. I am a single man, 70 years old. I recently met a woman I like in many ways, but here is the issue: Music has always been very important to me. I have thousands of albums and have seen a similar…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago  (848+ words) CONCORD, N. H. " New Hampshire is often overlooked when it comes to witchcraft, despite its own thorny history of accusing women of practicing the forbidden form of magic. That's according to historian Tricia Peone, who studies early witchcraft cases, as well as…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (864+ words) As animals go about their lives " eating, fighting, having babies " they don't always follow the script laid out for them by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Not every behavior furthers the cause of survival in a way that is obvious…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (758+ words) Despite its popularity in many cultures among lovers, family members, and friends, kissing has long perplexed evolutionary biologists, given that it has no obvious benefit to either reproducing or finding food, while carrying the risk of disease transmission. A 2015 study…...

8+ mon, 4+ day ago  (870+ words) He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged for ancient ungulates,…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (752+ words) Observations of "alpha male" behavior among apes " including some of humans" closest relatives in the animal kingdom " have helped shape the archetype of the dominant male into a controversial touchstone of modern culture. But a sweeping analysis of power dynamics…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (846+ words) TEL AVIV " Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100, 000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3 D mapping to study the bones of a child they believe was the result of interbreeding between the two…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (687+ words) On Valentine's Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, spotted an ancient molar lying on the surface, exposed by…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (790+ words) For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the pyramids were first constructed. The analysis, published in Nature on Wednesday, showed the remains belonged to a potentially…...