Do you think corporate jargon makes you come across as an intelligent person to the rest of the room? Even if you are successful in fooling a few people, a study states that such people are actually not intelligent. They also have a higher opinion of their boss compared to others. 

People who use sophisticated buzzwords to sound smart are actually the stupidest — and also the happiest at work

Scientists in Germany have identified the traits that most serial killers share. These can also tell about potential serial killers, as the researchers explained what might push someone to become a serial killer.

Who is a serial killer? German scientists find 4 traits that could be a dead giveaway

New research suggests that the practice of mummification originated in southern China and Southeast Asia nearly 12,000 years ago, thousands of years before the famous mummies of Ancient Egypt.

Smoked like meat? Scientists reveal shocking 12,000-year-old truth about the world's first mummies

A teenage girl in France can time-travel, going back to her past and the future. She has the strange ability to move across time and space and access specific memories in vivid detail, even recalling how something felt emotionally. Her future accounts feel very real. 

Time travelling French teen can return to the past and the future. But not how you think

Ancient humans ate little children thousands of years ago, according to archaeologists in Spain who have found proof at a site they have been studying for 30 years. The brutal practice shows Homo antecessor was brutal and exploited others for food.

Scientists find gruesome evidence that proves ancient humans ate children 850,000 years ago

This finding published in the journal Science Advances busts the believe that for each pregnancy, there is an equal chance of having either a boy or a girl. 

Baby boy or girl? It's not just random, says new study revealing secrets of children's' gender at birth

Scientists have managed to turn Laschamps event, or the cosmic event when Earth's magnetic poles switched places – the North Pole became the South Pole and vice versa – into a sound. We can finally hear what that moment in Earth's history might have sounded like.

THIS is what Earth sounded like when North Pole became South Pole: Scientists turn ancient chaos into eerie sound

In a path-breaking study, researchers have created artificial neurological junctions called synapses using a mix of water and salt, paving the way for the development of advanced computers that mimic the performance of a human brain.

Scientists develop artificial brain cell using mix of salt and water

Amid the ongoing worldwide plastic crisis, the findings of a recent study might just make your heart skip a beat. In a number of recent studies, it was found that microplastics are detected virtually everywhere, from rain, and snow to even human blood.

In a worrisome first, scientists detect microplastics in human hearts: Study

Scientists have broadly agreed that our species, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa and that modern humans also arose from one place on that continent in time. However, the findings published in the journal Nature, on Wednesday (May 17), say otherwise.

No, all humans didn't come from one place in Africa, claims new study

According to one of the most thorough research on long-term COVID to date, one in eight people who contract coronavirus experience at least one long-lasting symptom.

Long COVID symptoms affect 1 In 8, suggests Lancet Study

Researchers have now confirmed what basically everyone already knew: Grandmothers are hardwired to care deeply about their grandchildren. A new study published in the Royal Society B on Tuesday provides the first neural snapshot of intergenerational bonds.

The verdict is in: Science says Grannies are good for you

All those sleepless nights after binge watching the SAW series or Paranormal Activity may indeed have been worth it! A new study has claimed that ardent fans of the horror genre were better prepared to deal with the fallout of the pandemic, and found it easier to acclimatise to a post-pandemic lifestyle.

Scientists label 'morbidly curious' horror fans the calmest in a post-pandemic world!