As people grow older they often seem to become less sociable. Is this actually the case, and if so, what causes this change?

Have you ever wondered how animals adapt to urban life, with its traffic jams and busy streets? A fascinating observation by ...

A recent social media trend involving taping one's mouth shut at night to prevent mouth breathing has sparked considerable debate. But according to new research, this popular sleep hack may be less ...

Evolution isn't just about survival of the fittest, sometimes it's about cooperation. More than a century ago, Peter Kropotkin. Inspired by his observations in the tough climates of Russia's Far East, ...

Recently we made an attempt to put incomprehensible astronomical distances into a human perspective. We started by looking at the vast distances within our solar system, moving on to distances within ...

Mars speaks to the imagination of many people as a target for Human exploration. One of the many questions to solve is how we should power a potential mission on the surface of our beloved red planet.

The human brain, our most complicated organ, has gone through several growth spurts throughout the eons. But about 3000 years ago, something remarkable happened. Instead of the typical continued ...

For millennia, human beings stared up at the night sky and were held in awe by the Moon. To many ancient cultures, it represented a deity, and its cycles were accorded divine significance. By the time ...

Whoever coined the phrase “it’s a small world” obviously never tried to travel around it! In truth, the planet’s dimensions are quite impressive, and determining just how big it is took many thousands ...