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Around 43,000 years ago, the first frontmen of Homo sapiens colonised Europe. They replaced the Neanderthals in the region approximately 3,000 years later [...]

The significance of certain objects is so deeply anchored in our psyche that we rely on them even when their intended function is [...]

The oddest thing about stress is that people are likely to feel stressed about being stressed. Stress happens when we are stretched beyond [...]

A fossil tooth could be a buffet of information for researchers at a dig. Teeth grow like trees in a sense. They add [...]

One bizarre remark on Mona Lisa’s smile is that she doesn’t smile at all; it’s a visual illusion. And wasn’t Leonardo da Vinci [...]

Iron replaced bronze as the prime material for tool and weapon production during the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. [...]

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is just one of those places that sightseers flock to — “to see it before it’s gone”! It [...]

A study of Nobel-winning economists by Bruce Weinberg and David Galenson identifies two different life cycles of creativity — a surge in the [...]

Light is at the core of much of what astronomers do — light scattered, absorbed and re-emitted in clouds of gas and dust. [...]

Tentacled aliens from outer space are familiar to us from science fiction, but the octopus may be as alien an intelligence as we [...]

Horses have both binocular vision and monocular vision. Binocular vision is used when their eyes and ears are focused on something in front [...]

People can express emotions, such as happiness or sadness or anger, in two ways — through mere sounds (vocalisation) or through words (language). [...]