You may have noticed during times of high stress you're remembering your dreams more often. People describe having vivid ...

Researchers discovered that animal color vision evolved long before colorful fruits and flowers, with warning and sexual ...

The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that wheel-like technologies existed even earlier.

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This ...

The discovery of an 11th-century Islamic astrolabe in Verona, Italy, has captivated historians and scientists alike. With ...

A Yale-led team has found the strongest evidence yet of a novel type of superconducting material, a fundamental science ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

According to the Federal Reserve Board, the central banking system of the US, the US officially adopted the dollar sign in ...