As we age, many changes occur in our body, we become brittle, our hair turns white, and our skin wrinkles. We also become more susceptible to disease and can lose our cognitive …
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New research at a rock shelter on the edge of the Kalahari desert in South Africa challenges the assumption that modern human origins and complex behaviors were limited to coastal environments. A …
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Finding out when the first human species first developed and used stone tools is an important task for anthropologists, as it was such an important evolutionary step. Surprisingly, the projected date of …
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What do humans have that separates us from non-human primates, our closest living relatives? One of the biggest differentiators, scientifically speaking, is the size of our much larger brains, and now, we’ve …
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A coronavirus vaccine that exists in pill form could enter the early stages of clinical trials this year. Oravax, the company working on the substance, announced in a press release that it …
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Scientists have generated early-stage human embryo models that could help shed light on the “black box” of the early stages of human development and improve research on pregnancy loss and birth defects. …
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Some infectious bacteria have adapted so well to the human bladder that they appear to make their own DNA using chemicals in urine. The urinary tract is a difficult place for most …
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It was found in 2015, an isolated clue to a macabre mystery that was set in motion thousands of years ago. This ancient puzzle consisted of a single piece: a solitary human …
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The coronavirus pandemic has made the world obsessed with viruses like no other time in living memory, but new evidence reveals that humans do not even notice the vast extent of viral …
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Every now and then, we get just a little glimpse of how far human ingenuity has gone. Quite literally: the image above was taken by a spacecraft traveling through the solar system, …
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