Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using ...

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The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are ...

A cost-cutting initiative in the world of passenger aviation could see flight-deck staff reduced to just a captain, with ...

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Nostalgia for video games seems to be strongest for those played during childhood – at least for Nintendo Switch players ...

The concept of nothing once sparked a 1000-year-long war, today it might explain dark energy and nothingness even has the ...

By studying the brains of autistic girls, we now know the condition presents differently in them than in boys, suggesting ...

Atomic clocks are the basis upon which a second is defined. But there is a new kid on the block, the optical clock, which ...

A company in the Netherlands says it has perfected a way to create "graft chimeras" with the skin of one plant and the ...

A more precise definition of the second is crucial to all sorts of physical measurements – but to get there, scientists have ...