Stephanie Pappas
Cute canine head tilt: What are dogs thinking?
Canine behavior: research suggests the animals might cock their furry noggins when processing familiar words ...
A flash of intense consciousness after breathing stops, but before a person dies? What’s happening?
In their last minutes of life, some people's brains generate a surge of surprisingly organized-looking electrical activity that may reflect ...
Déjà vu: ‘A peek into how the memory system works when it goes a little off-kilter’
It’s an eerie feeling: You walk into a place you know you’ve never been before but are overwhelmed by a ...
Despite the vast diversity of the size, shape and behavior of dogs, they share a deep evolutionary history
The oldest fossil that scientists agree came from a dog, rather than a wolf, comes from a site in Germany ...
Do we need a new COVID vaccine to fight new and potentially more lethal variants?
The rapid spread of the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 has put more patients in hospital beds and led to reinstatements ...
Survival of the brainiacs: Controversial new thesis says humans evolved smarter to capture smaller prey
As the largest animals on the landscape disappeared, the scientists propose, human brains had to grow to enable the hunting ...
DNA shows Neanderthals mated with humans in two waves, not just once
[A]ncient humans mated with Neanderthals between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, well before the more recent, and better-known mixing of the two ...
Mystery Norwegian jelly-like blobs stump marine biologists
Giant, jelly-like blobs have been sighted off the western coast of Norway, but the identities of these mysterious objects have ...
Does low IQ correlate with prejudicial thinking?
There's a long-standing and somewhat uncomfortable finding in psychology: that low IQ, conservative social beliefs and prejudice — including anti-gay ...
Why do intelligent people live longer? It’s in your DNA
Smarter people tend to live longer than those with less luck in the intelligence department. Now, a new study hints ...
Richard III DNA test sparks controversy
King Richard III has been dead for more than 500 years, but his bones continue to ignite fresh controversy. The ...
Black Death altered European genes
The Black Death of the 14th century may be written into the DNA of survivors' descendants, new research finds. The ...
23andMe uncovers semen switching at a fertility clinic
A young women conceived with help from a fertility clinic in Utah in the early 1990s is actually the biological ...
Python’s extreme eating abilities have an evolutionary history to match
The first complete sequence of any snake genome reveals that Burmese pythons evolved rapidly to be able to eat prey ...
T. Rex tissue survives 68 million years, thanks to iron
The controversial discovery of 68-million-year-old soft tissue from the bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex finally has a physical explanation. According to new ...
Albino gorilla inbred, according to genome
The following is an excerpt. Snowflake was a male Western lowland gorilla. He was born in the wild and captured ...
Unraveling the human genome: 6 molecular milestones
In a milestone for the understanding of human genetics, scientists just announced the results of five years of work in ...
Genes tell intricate tale of Jewish diaspora
A new genetic map paints a comprehensive picture of the 2,000 or so years in which different Jewish groups migrated ...
Tarnished medals: Will genetic engineering change the Olympics?
Will the Olympics as we know it survive genetic engineering? That seems to be the question behind a new opinion ...
