Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oxford study links human right-handedness to bipedalism and larger brains across primate evolution. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Roughly ...

The big-idea explorers at Aperture dive into the strange psychological reasons behind why humans fear the dark.

Human beings are a panicky species – quick to fear and slow to understand. Over much of our evolutionary history, this ingrained alarm served us well, keeping us alive in a wild world brimming with ...

A Burning Man tribute to the last remnants of humanity, a buried Statue of Liberty, depicted in the 1967 science fiction film, Planet of the Apes. Courtesy of Flickr user Brian J. Matis Poof! The ...

(via SciShow) There are a lot of places, conditions, and situations that just don't seem all that survivable for most people. But for certain populations of humans, conditions that would be fatal for ...

Roughly nine out of 10 people favor their right hand, a pattern so common it can feel almost invisible. Yet in evolutionary terms, it is deeply strange. No other primate species comes close to showing ...