Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

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Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Viral DNA that is usually dismissed when sequencing the human genome could help to uncover useful information about complex ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

As people age, muscles naturally lose mass and strength, a condition known as sarcopenia. The decline can make everyday ...

To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated.

During his career, Dr. Andrew Crofton has research collaborations with a diverse array of clinical specialists and researchers, including a neurosurgeon, urologist, nuclear engineer, immunologist and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say. It shows a red outline of a hand whose fingers were reworked, ...

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