20+ hour, 59+ min ago  (676+ words) Roughly 9 in 10 people alive today are right-handed " a bias so lopsided it sets our species apart from every other primate on Earth. Apes and monkeys show no such extreme preference, yet humans have carried this quirk across every culture and…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (438+ words) A tiny bone fragment pulled from Denisova Cave in Siberia's Altai Mountains has yielded only the fourth complete Neanderthal genome ever sequenced " and it's already rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how this species spread across Eurasia. The fragment…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (604+ words) Credits: Planet Volumes, Rabah Al Shammary, The Pulse internal edition Your ability to deal with the flu may come from your DNA. As our scientific prowess has developed, we are making revolutionary findings about the world and ourselves in the…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (571+ words) Our lineage is becoming much clearer as science progresses. Over the past century, scientists have been working diligently to find the missing pieces in our family tree. As our archaeological prowess improves, new findings are being made that explain how…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (585+ words) Credits: File, representative image, The Pulse internal edition For generations, we believed that Africa was the birthplace of humans. How wrong we were. Archaeology has revealed the astonishing truths about our lineage. For the most part, we thought the Cradle…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (513+ words) The oldest color ever was found in the Sahara desert. The region used to have an ocean flowing through, but the geological process changed the area's formation. Oldest color ever found " A billion-year-old pigment hidden beneath the Sahara The colors…...