One figure widely quoted by pest control companies: There are 1,000 pounds of termites for every human on Earth. If you like big numbers, the 2018 report is delicious reading. Recently ...

Based on the skull structure and anatomical principles of the human head and face, the team used sculpting, painting, and other imaging technologies to add details including eyes, nose ...

The six DnD stats, or ‘ability scores’, describe a character’s natural mental and physical abilities. A character’s Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma are each ...

Every time we think we’re close to fully understanding the human body, something fresh and unexpected shows up. Recently, a team of researchers stumbled upon strange entities, or obelisks, living ...

37 individuals' remains show evidence of violence and cannibalism Decapitation, scalping, and evisceration suggest a mass killing event Disease, like plague, may have fueled tensions in this ancient ...

Human minibrains in little vials surprised scientists by surviving a stint in low-Earth orbit. US researchers sent lab-grown blobs of human neural tissue known as organoids for a short holiday on the ...

And they did that without ever growing those plants as crops, according to an analysis of roughly 15,000-year-old human bones and teeth from a cave in Morocco (SN: 6/1/24, p. 14). These findings ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — A 66-year-old Tuscaloosa man was arrested after an undercover operation that investigators with the West Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force conducted Tuesday. According to ...

But scientists have discovered human brains that are hundreds or even thousands of years old and don’t decompose along with the rest of the body. These remarkable specimens, found in places ...

Musk is so bothered by this, in fact, that he has made it one of his long-term goals to create an interface that allows the human brain to communicate directly with a computer, unencumbered by the ...

When modern humans arrived in New Guinea roughly 50,000 years ago, they met and mixed with the Denisovans, a now-extinct group of human ancestors who originated in Asia. But after that initial ...