A new book challenges us to work together as a community to grant sovereignty to forests and the animals who live there.

Recent studies have found a link between a specific biomarker of inflammation, depression and our strong need for close ...

Dunbar’s Number, the theory that we are only capable of having 150 friendships at any one time, remains surprisingly robust ...

India remains one of the strongest long-term stories, politically, socially, economically, and financially, says Navneet ...

Do animals see illusions like we do? A study tests guppies and doves to find out how different species process visual tricks.

A top journal publisher has been accused of abandoning science in favour of a “social justice agenda”. Nature, which produces ...

Joseph Henrich, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University, whose research and writings span anthropology, biology, and economics, has followed an unconventional academic and ...

Most people have friends — people to confide in, support, gas up, with whom to laugh, grab dinner, mutually despise the same things. Plenty of studies have underscored the benefits of these ...

Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, ...

Since being discovered in 1994, Ardi’s 4.4-million-year-old remains have been at the heart of an anthropological debate. To ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...