Humans

Food for Thought: What cooking and gathering for feasts reveal about human evolution

Cooking food marked more than just a lifestyle change for our ancestors. It helped fuel our evolution, give us bigger brains — and later down the line, became the centrepiece of feasting rituals that brought communities together

Hello Kitty: Can you communicate with your pet cat?

A study titled ‘The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat-human communication’ shows that if humans slow-blink at cats they will respond by blinking back at them. The narrowing of eyes and slow-blinks translate into a ‘smile’ for cats

Explained: Why a mission to send humans to Venus is not easy

Often called Earth’s 'evil twin' planet, Venus has a thick carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere, no magnetic field and a surface hot enough to melt lead. While there are plans to send crewed mission there in the future, is it really a good?

To the Moon and Back: All you need to know about NASA's Artemis 1 mission

The giant Space Launch System rocket will make its maiden flight from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday

Can death be reversed? Scientists partially revive pig organs hour after demise

The discovery raises hopes for a whole host of future medical uses in humans and could potentially lead to the lives of thousands being saved around the world. Experts and ethicists say the breakthrough could mean a need to update the definition of death itself

Fossilized jaw bone showed domesticated dogs, humans lived together in Central America 12,000 years ago

The presence of humans during the Pleistocene has been attested in Mexico, Chile and Patagonia, but never in Central America, until now.

Ancient footprints dating back 23,000 years push back date of human arrival in the Americas

As per research published on Thursday showed, the footprints suggested that humans settled in North America long before the end of the last Ice Age

Human ancestor Ardi may have 'swung from trees' like chimps till 4.4 mn years ago

A huge evolutionary leap was found between the hands of Ardi, and all later hominins, indicating a critical time for human evolution.

Researchers have found that human and monkeys have similar thought patterns

The indigenous Tsimane' people in Amazon rainforest, American adults and preschoolers and macaque monkeys all have a flair for recursive skills.

From guitarfish with no lids to a squid with orange-sized lenses, the animal kingdom's eyes are proof of nature's creativity

The animal kingdom, however, has the strangest, most complex eyes within it, from six-eyed spiders to geckos that can see 350 times better than humans. Some animals see infrared and ultraviolet, parts of the spectrum not visible to humans. Some animals even use their eyes to frighten predators or, like butterflies, imitate the eyes of larger animals with completely different parts of their bodies