Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

Human genetic diversity and evolution rely on new mutations and exchange of DNA between chromosomes during the generation of sex cells, in a process called recombination. Recombination manifests ...

Peter Beard was deeply concerned about declining animal populations in East Africa, especially large mammals like elephants. "Kenya Bull Elephant Reaching for the Last Branch on a Tree" strikes out as ...

Lynch found his first taste of mainstream critical acceptance with his 1980 biographical account of the life of Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man. The film, which starred John Hurt and Anthony ...

David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Wild at Heart, The Elephant Man and others who also created the ABC drama series Twin Peaks ...

Interesting uptrends in today's Scans: Dimerix (DXB), Echoiq (EIQ), Evolution Mining (EVN), Gold Road (GOR), Climate Change Leaders ETF (MCCL), Readytech (RDY), Regis ...

lifestyle and brain integrity -- measured by cortical thickness -- as well as cognitive evolution and brain atrophy over time. "The aim was to elucidate how various combinations of psychological ...

Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist renowned for co-developing the theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin – and for mapping out the biodiversity of the Indonesian Archipelago.

lifestyle and brain integrity—measured by cortical thickness—as well as cognitive evolution and brain atrophy over time. "The aim was to elucidate how various combinations of psychological ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...