Two giant mallard ducks in Garyville are both a folk-art masterpiece and part of an age-old Christmas bonfire tradition.

The popular nursery rhyme This Little Piggy is an early childhood memory for many of us. It’s a poem that involves five little piggies, each corresponding to one of our fingers or toes. Kids love it, ...

My long-term collaborator, professor Charles Spence from the Crossmodal Laboratory in Oxford, told me his neuroscience ...

For most of those features, of course, having two makes sense. A pair of eyes gives us a wider range of vision, depth ...

We forget joy because we imagine it’s gone or we’re not supposed to feel it, but it’s also right here, right next to sorrow, ...

Despite how advanced robots have become, getting them to feel the way humans do is an incredibly complex challenge.

Polling shows that nearly half of Americans now believe aliens have visited this planet—and that the number who aren't sure ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Roadrunners - known for strutting around Arizona deserts and inspiring wacky cartoons - have much in common with another animal species: human beings. The shared traits are the topic of a free Monday ...

If you find yourself in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, paper statistics quickly become apparent in the real-world: The Dutch ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...