Humanity

New research finds that people living in climatically turbulent regions tend to make riskier decisions than those in relatively more stable environments.

The Salton Sea was once known as California's Desert Riviera. Today it's struggling to stay alive, despite residents' best efforts at revitalization.

Evidence shows humans killed the mammoth deep in the Arctic—45,000 years ago.

A new study reveals that expression recognition software performs way better than humans at discriminating between real and fake emotion.

That’s the tentative conclusion of two researchers, who report that frequent players of immersive games are apparently less sensitive to pain.