Nothing is more intriguing than mysteries associated with the human body and mind. Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Strange, isn't it? Modern science is still puzzled by some of the features of human physiology and psychology, or the human body and mind. After all, humans never really question…
The history of human evolution might be rewritten once again, after the discovery of fossils in East Africa. It turns out that another distinct species of human ancestor, Homo rudolfensis (or simply "1470"), lived from 1.78 million to 1.95 million years ago along with already known ancestors, Homo habilis and…
A group of anthropologists from the University of Tennessee came to the conclusion that Americans' heads have started to change shape. It is unknown what it may be related to, but it is clear that skull size among white Americans become larger, narrower, and higher. It is possible that the same…
Science is expected to give answers to the important and the unimportant phenomena that take place around us, and the truth is that most of the time, it does not disappoint us. But there still remain mysteries that even the greatest scientists do not have an explanation for. Here are…
If terms such as adenine and guanine bring you memories of the school course of biology, here you will see a reason to give to these words a second meaning. A team of scientists discovered that these two, as well as the other building blocks of DNA, could possibly form…
Perhaps, the intelligent life is in its very young stage in the Universe scale. 200 billion galaxies show a potential to continue their existence for hundreds of billions of years or even more. Since the planets and the life are so new in our Universe, says Dimitar Sasselov from Harvard…
Famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking once again has caught the attention of the international community with a statement that if aliens exist (and they probably do), then humanity should not attempt to contact them. Confined to a wheelchair due to a neurological disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the astrophysicist made…
The progress of human civilization has set environmental problems on Earth. Yet, the fate of human civilization is not a question of tens or hundreds of years but of thousands and millions of years. Some scholars believe that migration to another galaxy would be the only possible scenario in the…