News Articles about Everyday Life

Parents are subconsciously selecting names that linguistically portray bigger and stronger for boys, and more petite...

Why penguins have lost the power of flight have been revealed by new research on other aquatic birds...

Early farming evolved among cultures who developed property rights, new research suggests...

Marilyn Monroe and Barry White had it sussed decades ahead of the science, but now revealed: how you sound reveals your...

Hunter-gatherers living in glacial conditions produced pots for cooking fish, giving us a greater insight into how...

A chance discovery in Yunnan province in China has yielded one of the oldest and most interesting collection of...

It has been a busy week for open access...

A team led by Paul Renne at the Berkeley Geochronology Center in California have shed new light on the asteroid impact...

Cheese-making got started at least 7000 years ago, a new study from Poland has shown...

Bright light exposure at night harms your health and your memory, even if you think you are sleeping normally...

Delicate stone arrowheads dating from 71,000 years ago have been unearthed in South Africa, providing the earliest...

Eunuchs live up to 19 years longer than intact males...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have discovered and analysed some remarkable stone age tools that they say are the...

The claim that people tend to look in one direction - up and to the left - when they are being honest, and a different...

Make no bones about it, dinosaurs were warm-blooded, new research has revealed.

One of archaeology's greatest questions, "did farming move across Europe with knowledge or people?" is...

The timings of supernova explosions close to Earth marry up with epochs in the planet's history when the diversity...

Otzi, the Tyrolean iceman frozen in a glacier for 5300 years until his 1991 discovery, was brown-eyed, prone to heart...

Throughout history, a "gentleman" was something the lower classes deferred to and aspired to be. But now new...

Bedding 77,000 years old has been uncovered at a cave site in South Africa....

The world's oldest tackle, together with evidence of deep-sea fishing 40,000 years ago, has been unearthed in East...

Dr Robert Massey brings us up to date with what's been happening at the Royal Astronomical Society...

Children are more likely to seek assistance in a task than chimpanzees, suggesting that a motivation to work together...

Getting hitched and having children causes mens' testosterone levels to drop, painting a very different...