New research by Smithsonian scientists suggests that preferences for certain sounds might be evolutionarily conserved ...

It's both fascinating and kind of important.

Two archaeologists explore the enduring myth that extraterrestrials contributed to the various ancient cultures around the ...

The story of Ryan Gosling's hit sci-fi movie "Project Hail Mary" is told out of order using flashbacks. If you got a little ...

The FDA has released draft guidance that aims to clear up how drug developers can use alternative testing – but that doesn’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing research – including ancient DNA technology – is changing the picture of human evolution and how our ancestors interacted ...

Noise pollution is affecting bird behavior across the globe, disrupting everything from courtship songs to the ability to find food and avoid predators, a large-scale new analysis showed on Wednesday.

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

"If they do say take us to your leader, and that is Donald Trump. I mean, he is the president of America, and that is the leader of the free world. If they're going to base their ideas about how we ...

When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...

A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to chimpanzees. By comparing full and half siblings across species and human cultures, ...

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 ...