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Theoretical results about black holes suggest that the universe could be like a gigantic hologram
The simple binary notion of technology haves and have-nots doesn't quite compute
During the Miocene epoch, as many as 100 species of apes roamed throughout the Old World. New fossils suggest that the ones that gave rise to living great apes and humans evolved not in Africa but Eurasia
Biologists have been surprised to discover that most animal and plant cells contain a built-in system to silence individual genes by shredding the RNA they produce. Biotech companies are already working to exploit it
Long thought to be solely the brain's coordinator of body movement, the cerebellum is now known to be active during a wide variety of cognitive and perceptual activities
When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought
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