When cinema audiences are discovered sauntering bowlegged down the city streets of Britain this summer, like John Wayne with an over-full nappy, Tim Burton's new Planet Of The Apes will almost ...

In his newly published The Social Conquest of the Earth—the 27th book ... As Wilson sees it, human beings are eusocial apes, and in our brand of extreme togetherness we stand apart—from ...

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A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.

Daniel Apai receives funding for astrobiology research from NASA, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that ...

The two gases - dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl disulfide, or DMDS - involved in Webb's observations of the planet named K2-18 b are generated on Earth by living organisms, primarily ...

Now a team of researchers is offering what it contends is the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life, not in our solar system but on a massive planet, known as K2-18b, that orbits a ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In fact, ...