Why is human culture -- the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations -- so much more powerful than animal cultures?

It's common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has ...

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors, say researchers.

Qatar was praised at the United Nations’ top human rights body on Tuesday for improving labor laws before the 2022 World Cup, ...

Light as a healing tool remains part science and part mystery. Ancient practices using sunlight laid the groundwork for a field that has now evolved into sophisticated therapies for both mental and ...

People have long projected stories onto the poignant casts of Pompeii’s victims. A new study uses ancient DNA analysis to ...

First identified by archaeologists in 1978, the site was initially found to be home to at least 70 hominin footprints ...

Does disconnection with the ground cause us to become sicker? That's the idea behind the practice of "grounding" or "earthing" which is growing in popularity. We separate the science from the nonsense ...

New study by researchers in China and US finds excessive Immunoglobulin G in the body can accelerate ageing and intensify inflammation.

The original 2021 ruling ordered Shell to cut its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels. The appeals court ...

Several science and health experts are in Calgary to kick off a weeklong campaign aimed at educating Canadians about the ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...