Well-preserved genomes show a “rare” leprosy strain thriving in ancient Chile, rewriting when and where Hansen’s Disease ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly ...

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an ...

Today, all non-Africans are known to have descended from a small group of people that ventured into Eurasia after around 50 thousand years ago ...

Anybody who has ever struggled to get enough sleep knows just how much in life can interfere with our rest, and just how ...

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In the U.S., the monthly payments increase the longer one works—researchers have now examined whether delaying retirement is ...

A new study suggests that a short nap, especially one reaching deeper N2 sleep, can significantly boost problem-solving ...

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...

Power naps: Orangutans compensate for sleep deprivation by taking naps during the day. The length of their sleep is influenced by the presence of other orangutans, nighttime temperatures, and ...

A new study finds that entering N2 sleep—a deep phase of non-rapid eye movement sleep—may help lead to more “eureka” ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) and the University of Konstanz in Germany, working with ...