Study of primate vowel sounds pushes speech evolution back 27 million years
New evidence suggests that the dawn of speech came before the time of our last common ancestor with Old World monkeys
How you feel – explained
Scientists get a better idea of the way pressure is turned for us into touch, pain and sound
Oldest molecules in the universe found
Helium hydride was detected in gas around a dying star right within our galaxy
How plants can tell time – without a brain
Different organs peak at different times, producing a steady, 24-hour pattern
‘It’s raining plastic’
Microplastics are everywhere, even settling down in the quieter reaches of the Rockies. Their effect on human health, if any, is to be determined