“The Old ‘Did Neanderthals Even Speak?’ Question' Is 'Very Hard To Sustain”: Genetic Hardware For Language Abilities Evolved Long Before Modern Humans Appeared But the capacity for language comes at a cost, and may increase the chance of complications during birth.

“The Old ‘Did Neanderthals Even Speak?’ Question' Is 'Very Hard To Sustain”: Genetic Hardware For Language Abilities Evolved Long Before Modern Humans Appeared

Potential Water-Ice Clouds On A Jupiter-like Planet, A Step Toward Finding Them On Earth-like Worlds They might ruin a sunny day, but clouds are a key part of what makes Earth home.

Potential Water-Ice Clouds On A Jupiter-like Planet, A Step Toward Finding Them On Earth-like Worlds

The Old Brutish Image Of Neanderthals Was Linked To One Fossil – But It Was A Total Red Herring In defense of the Neanderthal.

The Old Brutish Image Of Neanderthals Was Linked To One Fossil – But It Was A Total Red Herring

3.5-Billion-Year-Old Organic Molecules Freed Thanks To First-Of-Its-Kind Experiment On Another World A molecule similar to a DNA precursor, never seen before on Mars, was seen by Curiosity in this experiment.

3.5-Billion-Year-Old Organic Molecules Freed Thanks To First-Of-Its-Kind Experiment On Another World

Earth's Deep Tectonic “Pump” Moves Billions Of Microbes To The Surface In An Evolutionary Cycle The tectonic pump could transport 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 microbial cells every million years.

Earth's Deep Tectonic “Pump” Moves Billions Of Microbes To The Surface In An Evolutionary Cycle

AMOC’s Fragile Western Boundary Appears To Be Failing, Putting Western Europe's Climate Under Threat If this really is happening, the consequences could be worse than we thought.

AMOC’s Fragile Western Boundary Appears To Be Failing, Putting Western Europe's Climate Under Threat

Forget Cocaine Bear, Researchers Are Using Cocaine Salmon To See How Drugs Affect Animal Behaviour It’s not at horror film levels, but the illicit drugs we excrete probably affect fish and the ecosystem at large.

Forget Cocaine Bear, Researchers Are Using Cocaine Salmon To See How Drugs Affect Animal Behaviour

The Fall And Rise Of Yosemite's Peregrine Falcons, Finally Back After Near-Extinction Their populations are soaring, just like the birds themselves.

The Fall And Rise Of Yosemite's Peregrine Falcons, Finally Back After Near-Extinction

Scientists Thought They Knew How New DNA Was Made. A Newly Discovered Bacterial Defense System Might Have Just Changed That The 'rules' of biology aren't always set in stone.

Scientists Thought They Knew How New DNA Was Made. A Newly Discovered Bacterial Defense System Might Have Just Changed That

Natural Selection Shaped Hundreds More Human Genes Than We Thought, Massive Ancient DNA Study Finds Scientists previously thought only a handful of genes showed signs of selection in recent human evolution, but previous studies hadn't taken full advantage of ancient DNA.

Natural Selection Shaped Hundreds More Human Genes Than We Thought, Massive Ancient DNA Study Finds

Hungry Jellyfish Wait In The Water Column For Spawning Worms In First-Ever Observation Of Behavior Jellyfish are opportunistic predators but it seems they've added these typically seafloor dwelling worms to the menu.

Hungry Jellyfish Wait In The Water Column For Spawning Worms In First-Ever Observation Of Behavior

Narwhal “Horns” Are More Incredible Than You Might Realize They used to be touted as unicorn horns – but the tooth is even stranger.

Narwhal “Horns” Are More Incredible Than You Might Realize

Scientists Solve Mystery Of Why The Colorado River Disappeared From The Geological Record For 5 Million Years Converging lines of evidence provide a strong case for what had been a long-running mystery among geologists.

Scientists Solve Mystery Of Why The Colorado River Disappeared From The Geological Record For 5 Million Years

Was 'Benjamin' The Last Ever Thylacine? The Real Story Isn't So Simple Too weird to live, too rare to die.

Was 'Benjamin' The Last Ever Thylacine? The Real Story Isn't So Simple

Neanderthal DNA Continues To Shape Our Brains And Influence Our Mental Health Scientists are still trying to understand why our Neanderthal DNA hasn't all been eliminated by natural selection.

Neanderthal DNA Continues To Shape Our Brains And Influence Our Mental Health

Unethical Experiments That Shook The World Before today’s strict ethical standards was a darker past of unethical human experiments carried out in the name of scientific progress.

Unethical Experiments That Shook The World

'Synthetic Organic Molecule' Found Inside Martian Meteorite, Physicists Measured The Strength Of Black Hole Jets, And Much More This Week All the biggest science news stories of the week.

'Synthetic Organic Molecule' Found Inside Martian Meteorite, Physicists Measured The Strength Of Black Hole Jets, And Much More This Week

What Is The Fastest Growing Mammalian Tissue? Deer oh deer.

What Is The Fastest Growing Mammalian Tissue?

Why Is Hotel Toilet Paper Always Folded Into A Triangle? The Answer Is Surprisingly Fascinating By looking at toilet roll, you can learn a lot about psychology, culture, and humanity. Seriously.

Why Is Hotel Toilet Paper Always Folded Into A Triangle? The Answer Is Surprisingly Fascinating

Nasal Spray Could Reverse Brain Aging By Lowering Inflammation And Re-energizing Brain Cells Mouse trials suggest this therapy could turn back the clock on aging brains, removing brain fog and restoring memory.

Nasal Spray Could Reverse Brain Aging By Lowering Inflammation And Re-energizing Brain Cells

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains How You Can't Believe In Flat Earth If You've Ever Seen A Lunar Eclipse Unfortunately, this here is a sight no human will ever see, due to the failure of the 'pancake Earth' hypothesis.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains How You Can't Believe In Flat Earth If You've Ever Seen A Lunar Eclipse

In 1984, A NASA Astronaut Flew Untethered To Capture A Satellite And The Footage Is Totally Terrifying This video is not for the faint-hearted or sweaty-palmed.

In 1984, A NASA Astronaut Flew Untethered To Capture A Satellite And The Footage Is Totally Terrifying

Scarlet Fever Bacterium Discovered In Pre-Columbian Mummy, Suggesting Disease Was Present In Americas Long Before Europeans Arrived The researchers stumbled upon the pathogen by accident, but decided to dig into its genome due to its recent resurgence.

Scarlet Fever Bacterium Discovered In Pre-Columbian Mummy, Suggesting Disease Was Present In Americas Long Before Europeans Arrived

VPNs Will Be Useless On A Quantum Internet – Your Location Can Always Be Known Thanks to entanglement, you can verify if someone is who they say they are.

VPNs Will Be Useless On A Quantum Internet – Your Location Can Always Be Known

'Synthetic Organic Molecule' Found Inside Martian Meteorite. But Don't Worry, It Is Of Human Origin While we will have to wait a long time for samples collected on Mars to be returned to Earth, we do have Martian rock sent to us the old-fashioned way – unfortunately, analysis reveals a few surprises that shouldn't be there.

'Synthetic Organic Molecule' Found Inside Martian Meteorite. But Don't Worry, It Is Of Human Origin

Megalodon Could Soon Become The First Official State Shark In US History It's taken millions of years, but the Meg might finally become an official state shark.

Megalodon Could Soon Become The First Official State Shark In US History

Unconventional 'Superionic' State Of Matter Could Exist Deep Within Uranus And Neptune New computational simulations suggest something odd deep within the ice giants.

Unconventional 'Superionic' State Of Matter Could Exist Deep Within Uranus And Neptune

NASA Head Jared Isaacman Responds To Child Who Wants To Make Pluto A Planet Again 'Please make Pluto a planet again. I really want it to be a planet again,' Kayla begins, eliciting a response from the NASA Administrator.

NASA Head Jared Isaacman Responds To Child Who Wants To Make Pluto A Planet Again

QiQi, The Last Confirmed Baiji, Died In 2002 Amidst The First Human-Caused Extinction Of A Cetacean Baiji were declared functionally extinct in 2006.

QiQi, The Last Confirmed Baiji, Died In 2002 Amidst The First Human-Caused Extinction Of A Cetacean

Scientists Thought This Rodent Family Went Extinct 11 Million Years Ago – Then They Found Some In The Jungle A 'living fossil' scuttling around Laos.

Scientists Thought This Rodent Family Went Extinct 11 Million Years Ago – Then They Found Some In The Jungle