Apolo Ohno, the most decorated US skater, noted that the difference between a gold medal and missing the podium often comes ...

While bone is twice as tough (resists fracture), ivory has double the strength (withstands breaking completely). Ivory is ...

Witness Kate Middleton's stunning eyebrow transformation through the years, revealing how her iconic look has evolved with ...

The idea that animals have their own forms of language has been explored, shared, and expounded upon by scientists for ...

Researchers believe the ancient wood, found in Greece, is actually evidence of the earliest hand-held wooden tool usage in ...

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by ...

Butterflies closer to the equator have been shown to evolve shared wing patterns faster than their relatives at higher latitudes. That gradient reframes tropical diversity as an active process, shaped ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dating back 430,000 years, at the Marathousa 1 site in ...

Found in southern Greece, the stick was one of two wooden artifacts that appear to have been shaped intentionally, according ...

A study of wild African herbivores offers new insight into how environmental conditions—not just diet and anatomy—can ...

The animals' extended lower jaws were seemingly made for scooping, but research over the past few decades has found they ...

Abstract: Traditional bio-inspired evolution algorithms for nonlinear optimization face challenges such as getting trapped in local optima, unstable optimal solutions, and lack of adaptability, when ...