One of the most devastating events in the history of life on Earth is believed to have happened 65.5 million years ago, when an asteroid approximately 15 km across impacted our planet in what...

With the results of a study published in the March 11 issue of Current Biology, scientists from University College London (UCL) have brought us closer to understanding how memories are fixed in our brains. The...

Small talk is a beast with many forms. There’s small talk with friends which would likely progress into more if you weren’t in a rush to get to class. There’s the confusing cross-talk small...

As a trained paleontologist and professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago, Neil Shubin discovered that by using comparative anatomy he could teach human anatomy to his students better. Many animals share similar...

As university students, we are often in multiple classes and have many other responsibilities, which may make it seem like there are not enough minutes in the day to accomplish everything we need to...

What do you learn when you look at an inkblot? Well, some researchers believe that they can help you to reveal the unconscious workings of your mind. The Rorschach Inkblot test is a type...

Just over 200 years ago, the prevailing belief popularized by religious mythology was that the planet earth had been around for just some 10,000 years. Thankfully scientists, like the French naturalist Comte de Buffon,...