Science researchers have found that people may have a tendency to form friendships with individuals who have a similar body odor.

In a world first, researchers have revealed that early humans across southern Africa made a particular type of stone tool in the same shape.

Horses, pigs and wild horses can distinguish between negative and positive sounds from their fellow species and near relatives and humans.

Researchers developed a new gene-editing platform called transcription activator-like effector-linked deaminases, or TALED for short.

The genetic origins of the first agriculturalists in the Neolithic period long seemed to lie in the Near East a new study finds.

The paper challenges new theories that the earliest human inhabitants of North America arrived before the migration of people from Asia.

Scientists can make some pretty accurate forecasts about the future, but predicting what the Earth will be like in 500 years is difficult.

Are people more likely to feel empathy for animals than humans? A new Penn State study suggests the answer may be complicated.

What smells we like or dislike is primarily shared by people regardless of cultural background, according to researchers in Sweden and UK.

A three-year-old consortium has finally filled in that remaining DNA, providing the first complete, gapless genome sequence.

To reconstruct the cookery of people who lived thousands of years ago, bones and plant remains can tell us which ingredients were available

Dogs can recognize their owner by voice alone, and they make use of some of the same voice properties as humans do.

The precise role of each subregion in the brain in real-time speech feedback has until now remained unclear.

Everyone experiences smells in their own unique way – the same scent can be pleasant, too intense or even undetectable to different noses.

Kindness is key to how we evolved and survived as a species, scientists say. We are hard-wired to be kind.

For millions of patients who have lost limbs the possibility of regaining function through natural regeneration remains out of reach.

Dog brains can detect speech, and show different activity patterns to a familiar and an unfamiliar language, a new brain imaging study finds

The Matterhorn appears as an immovable, massive mountain that has towered over the landscape near Zermatt for thousands of years.

Researchers at UPF and the University of Padua discover what happens when we do not use our hands to explain something.

White people who received training in mindfulness meditation were three times more likely to help a Black person in staged scenarios.