Kissing in humans evolved as a symbolic expression of love from grooming behaviours seen in ancestral great apes, a comprehensive new study says. The kiss has been a versatile way by which humans across civilisations and societies have shown affection, intimacy, or social bonding, most often in a way thatContinue Reading
Vampire bats made to run on treadmills in a lab reveal secrets of the special metabolism fueling them from blood consumed only minutes before. The research, published in the journal Biology Letters, found that the bats, native to Mexico and Central and South America, burn amino acid molecules found inContinue Reading
Researchers are learning more about ancient central European society thanks to stones from thousands of years ago. A team of international scientists analyzed markings made on more than 400 stone plaquettes that date back 15,800 years, and uncovered something not previously known during the final period of the Stone Age.Continue Reading
Researchers have made another major stride in understanding humanity’s origins of writing. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE. Developed by the Sumerians and written on clay tablets, the first cuneiform is largely sourced back to the urban city of Uruk, orContinue Reading
A fossil, believed to be one of the oldest ever, could help explain the rise of the dinosaurs. Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of the ancient reptile dating back some 237 million years. Named Gondwanax paraisensis, the four-legged reptile species was roughly the size of a small dog withContinue Reading
Cats are able to utilise an unusual awareness of their own body shape and size to fit into the tightest of spaces, scientists say, after conducting a study into how felines are effectively able to behave like liquid. Several animals are known to make decisions about their passability through spacesContinue Reading
Researchers have made another major stride in understanding humanity’s origins of writing. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE. Developed by the Sumerians and written on clay tablets, the first cuneiform is largely sourced back to the urban city of Uruk, orContinue Reading
An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city with thousands of undiscovered structures, including pyramids, under a Mexican forest. The data came from laser scans of the Campeche region and revealed a buried world, since named “Valeriana”, with nearly 6,700 undiscovered structures. Archeologists have been usingContinue Reading
Archaeologists have unearthed a strange 2,500-year-old burial of an Iron Age woman in Sweden with a small knife stuck to her grave. The latest dig at the ancient cemetery site in Pryssgården in eastern Sweden unravelled nearly 50 burials dating to between 500 BC and 400 AD. Of these burials,Continue Reading
Toddlers might be too young to know the words impossible and improbable but they may still understand how possibility works, research suggests. The study found that two and three-year-olds are able to distinguish between improbable and impossible events and even learn from impossible scenarios. The researchers believe that toddlers learnContinue Reading
