A new study has uncovered evidence that early human ancestors were using fire in South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ago, extending the chronology of one of the earliest ...

People who are hesitant to try insect-based foods may enjoy the experience more than they expect—and can become more open to ...

Most Americans, even those who most appreciate artificial intelligence, strongly support more regulation of it, a new survey ...

For more than a hundred years, chemists have been building complex molecules step by step – bond by bond, atom by atom. But ...

Black holes have been understood as infinite singularities for a century. In 1916, months after Einstein published general ...

The introduction of domestic laundry machines came with unexpected, and massive, consequences: the suds from new synthetic ...

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I thought I was doing everything right. I live in a sunny climate most of the year. I eat a fairly balanced diet. I work in nutrition and spend a good part of my life reading research and helping ...

A massive scientific initiative to decode how aging reshapes the human body reached a major milestone this month. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet) published ...

Albert Einstein postulated in his 1905 theory of special relativity that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant. Ever since, that’s been one of the fundamental assumptions of physics. Now Enbang ...

The mission of the National Institutes of Health is "to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen ...