Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and leprosy in humans, according to a new study.
A comprehensive new study combines decades of research to reveal that we're missing an essential component in our understanding of how the universe works.
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Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes — possibly to ...
A man known as the "Oslo patient" joins a short list of people in long-term remission from HIV following bone marrow ...
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The first well-observed "civil war" in wild chimpanzees reveals that shifting social ties alone can fracture a group, ...
A genomic analysis of dozens of ancient Korean skeletons revealed a special "sacrificial caste" of people. When you purchase ...
New images show the sungrazer comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) did not survive its close approach to our home star. Instead, the ...
Scientists discovered that making a very small change to female mice's DNA caused them to develop male reproductive organs.