More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

CBT is an evidence-supported treatment for adult ADHD. Evolving trends in CBT have already improved adult ADHD treatment, and some hold the promise of further gains.

Tickling, a seemingly involuntary reflex, evolved not for humor but for connection. It targets exposed areas, triggering ...

Two macaques learned to keep time with various songs, which might point to how humans got their sense of rhythm. But some ...

And something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?” Bob Dylan wrote that in 1965 about a man watching the world slip out of his grasp. The strange thing is how well it ...

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The brain doesn't just recognize the human voice. A study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) shows that certain areas of our ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

Rob Landes performs popular video game themes from 1989-2018 on violin, including Prince of Persia, Kirby, Crash Bandicoot, ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...