Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 ...

Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury—a form so harmful ...

Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

Fossil teeth challenge the idea that large brains drove extended childhood, suggesting cultural transmission shaped human evolution.

Meet NSLS-II Vacuum Group Leader Robert Todd and learn about the crucial role high-tech vacuum systems play in maintaining ...

In the new study, Zollikofer and his team examined several teeth that were uncovered over 20 years ago in the Caucasus ...

When Keith Hodgson first arrived at Stanford University in the fall of 1973, he did not know much about synchrotron radiation ...

"I'm excited to see what other physics the partnership uncovers as we push these experiments to much higher velocity ...

University of Toronto researchers used the Canadian Light Source synchrotron, Canada’s only device of its kind, to develop medicinal compounds capable of fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Now, leveraging high-energy X-rays at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, researchers have identified an ...