Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Eugene T. Mahoney State Park in Ashland, Nebraska isn’t just a park—it’s Nebraska’s best-kept secret hiding in plain sight ...

Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from ...

Our growing understanding of how other animals also share skills and knowledge will help us chip away at the folly of human exceptionalism, say Philippa Brakes and Marc Bekoff ...

From bioacoustics capturing the sounds of the jungle, to myriad satellites sending images back from space, there is now a ...

I went to see a Broadway play earlier this week and met a wonderful retired school principal from Florida, Bonnie. She was the one called in to fix schools that were failing. She mentioned a term to ...

Whidbey Audubon Society is offering a unique opportunity on the solstice for those with physical challenges. Madrone Ruggiero will lead a field trip at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 21, on the paved Bounty ...

What if aliens know we exist but are deliberately hiding? Part 2 delves into the "Cosmic Zoo" and "Galactic Club" hypotheses, where Earth is a protected planet under observation by advanced ...

The state of New Mexico has recognized a state fossil and a state gem. The state gem of New Mexico is, not surprisingly, turquoise. Chemically, that gem is a phosphate of aluminum carrying small ...

This study evaluates the Play Matrix, a novel observational tool designed to assess role-play in early childhood within the cultural-historical framework. The Play Matrix comprises 22 behavioral ...

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A new study by the team of Ashley Dayer, a Virginia Tech professor, explores how to make Project FeederWatch, one of North America’s largest observation programs, ...