* Study traces Egyptians' stone-age roots: A researcher says that using ancient teeth, he has learned who the Egyptians may have been before history. ...
* Study finds memories are like mental time travel: When you remember something, your brain recreates the patterns of activity it had when the event happened,...
* A molecule that won't sit still: Chemists say they have finally figured out the shape of a molecule whose furious jiggling thwarted past attempts to study...
* WIPED OUT: Global warming sowing disease, extinction, researchers say Climate change is promoting diseases that have killed off dozens of amphibian species,...
* Study: eating less may delay human aging: Scientists report the first evidence that a phenomenon long noted in some animals may be true of humans also. ...
* Searching for extra dimensions: A new detector of elusive particles called neutrinos might provide evidence for extra dimensions, researchers say. ...
* T. Rex "granddaddy" described as vicious little monster: Fossils suggest Tyrannosaurus Rex's earliest known ancestor was a fierce hunter who wore a crown for...
* Race matters to 3-month-olds, study finds: Early in life, many of us start to prefer faces of people from our own race to others, according to researchers. ...
* "Backward evolution" spawns ape-like people: A newfound mutation is reported to make people walk on all fours and mouth a primitive language, possibly...
* Claim of reversed human evolution sparks skepticism, interest: Scientists' reactions have ranged from deep doubt to curiosity over last week's report of a...
* Misconduct claim fuels clash of "wrist-walker" researchers: The already bizarre case of a syndrome whose victims walk on all fours has taken a surprise turn....
* Pompeii destruction wasn't worst Vesuvius had to offer: study Thousands of footprint trails attest to a mass flight from a prehistoric village, geologists...
* Hormone inspires animal "babysitting": Researchers have long turned to animals to study how cooperation evolved. New findings highlight the role of hormones,...
* Space rock risk underreported, researchers say: Growing numbers of astronomers are questioning traditional estimates of how often comets or asteroids hit...
* Can mice succumb to Mozart?: Few if any people would claim that rodents like Mozart. But three research groups say this much: his music seems to do something...
* Premature babies feel pain -- but fetuses don't, reports say: Two new papers shed light on some of the latest thinking on a charged question: whether the...
* Birds grasp key rule of grammar, study finds: The European starling has an unsuspected ability to pick up "human-only" language skills, researchers suggest. ...
* Studies find logic lurking in madness: A widespread suspicion that insanity and rationality are related is not without its basis, researchers have found. ...