A lot has happened since 2007. Just look at how much the iPhone home screen has changed. Or how little? Back in the days of the first iPhone (it wasn't even called iOS yet), we couldn't get third party apps or even move apps around. Now, we have a bigger screen and all these funktastic icons. Read More >>

Today's smallest primate, the pygmy mouse lemur, can reach up to about 5 inches in height — and that's even on the larger side. But the primate skeleton that researchers just uncovered, the oldest ever found on record, stood even smaller than our pygmy friend as it scampered around the earth — a whole 55 million years ago. Read More >>

After kindly asking a group of Canadian miners for a sample of some water they'd struck, a team of scientists who had been investigating similar finds discovered that the fluid they were looking at may have been sealed up for 1.5 billion years. Read More >>

Swallows that nest on roadsides appear to have evolved shorter wings to help them maneuver better and avoid cars, claim a team of scientists from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. Read More >>

With the launch of the awesome-yet-horrendously-named LaFerrari, the Italian lust-machine maker is pulling out all the stops to make sure you know where its latest beast has come from. If it were human, the LaFerrari would have incredible genes. I mean, just look at its parentage, from the 288 GTO through the F40, F50 and Enzo. All incredible cars. Read More >>

A lot's changed on the surface of the Earth over the past 4.5 billion years. This video explains the long, slow process that enabled simple cells to evolve into the creatures that inhabit our planet today. [YouTube] Read More >>

If it's not one thing, it's another: a new hypothesis floating around the scientific community suggests that evolving bigger brains and superior intellect may have led to a dramatically elevated risk of cancer in humans. Thanks, brain. Read More >>

The placebo effect seems to make no sense: get mildly ill, take a dummy pill without knowing it's ineffective, and you'll recover in much the same way as someone taking real drugs. But new evidence suggests that we might have evolved the placebo effect to save energy. Read More >>

According to some scientists, similarities between the DNA of modern people and Neanderthals are more likely to have come from shared ancestry, rather than interbreeding as previously thought. Read More >>

It's been 62 years since Formula One kicked off in 1950, and boy has it changed. From the shapes of the cars; the engines that power them; the tracks they race on, and even the humble steering wheel -- it's all changed quite dramatically, as shown in this beautiful video. Read More >>

Lots of men worry about losing their hair. But instead of fretting about their beauty, it might make sense for them to count their blessings—because, by rights, bald men should probably be extinct by now. So why aren't they? Read More >>

Summer's virtually here, which means soon many of us will be incapacitated through sneezes, coughs, and itchy eyes. While allergies are a pain in the ass, they may not be the misguided immune responses many scientists have believed them to be. In fact, a new theory is emerging which suggests that they may have evolved to protect us. Read More >>

Music, you might think, is an innately human pursuit; something which can only truly be written by us, the most intelligent of creatures. But a team of London-based researchers has demonstrated that, actually, it's possible for digital music to evolve by itself, without any creative input from a composer. Read More >>

Common knowledge dictates that girls dig guys with muscles. However, new research suggests that women gave up on bulging biceps and strong jawlines long ago, in favour of qualities like loyalty and generosity. In other words, the scrawny geek gets the gal. Read More >>

The smallest mammoth ever known to have existed has been confirmed to have lived on the island of Crete—and scientists believe that it was an adult which had evolved into a dwarf species of the giant beasts. Read More >>