Mar. 18, 2025 — Researchers have mapped the long-range synaptic connections involved in vocal learning in zebra finches, uncovering new details about how the brain organises learned ...

Mar. 19, 2025 — To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only ...

Born about 600 BCE in what is now southwestern Iran, Cyrus “the Great” is considered the founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. He is remembered as “the Great” to distinguish him from his ...

Reflexology, a traditional healing art dating from the ancient Egyptians and Chinese ... Practitioners claim the soles of the feet are like a mini map of the inside of the body and are linked ...

Jeremy Workman’s documentary looks back at a project that may sound like a joke but had serious underpinnings. By Alissa Wilkinson Jason Statham plays a construction worker who’s as deft at ...

This skeleton is a cast copy of the original skeleton discovered in 1823 by early British fossil-hunter Mary Anning (who is believed to have inspired the tongue twister, “she sells sea shells by the ...

In Britain, archaeologists have found Iranian and Egyptian beads, Scandinavian amber items, Aegean metalwork, Cypriot and ...

Credit: Hermann Vogel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The name Drimachus stands out as a symbol of defiance and slave revolt in the annals of ancient Greek history ... prominent Greek islands in ...

Annual and seasonal average sea surface temperature (SST) maps are available for the Australian region. Long-term averages have been calculated over the standard 30-year period 1961-1990. A 30-year ...

Iron spearheads and copper alloy artifacts that were found in the Melsonby Hoard. (Image credit: Durham University) From the field, the team cut out a large block of earth holding the artifacts ...

Renowned Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass rejected viral claims of pillars and structures beneath the Pyramid of Khafre, swiftly debunking the speculative research that gained widespread ...