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The first Neandertal draft genome was published in 2010. Since then, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology...

The Black Death was the single greatest mortality event in recorded history, killing up to 50% of the European population...

Maia G. Vergniory, a researcher in our department of Solid State Chemistry/at the Max Planck for Chemical Physics of Solids...

A “hub and spoke” system enables plant cells to efficiently coordinate cellular trafficking, particularly for cellular recycling, the so-called autophagy...

DALLAS – Oct. 19, 2022 – New research from pediatricians at UT Southwestern and Children's Health reveals the impact of COVID-19...

Deep below the ocean’s surface, the seafloor contains large quantities of naturally occurring, ice-like deposits made up of water and...

The multicellular stage of the amoeba Dicyostelium discoideum is partially regulated by an intensely yellow natural substance, as researchers of...

Cambridge, Mass. – Astrophysicists have performed a powerful new analysis that places the most precise limits yet on the composition...

McLean Hospital, a member of Mass General Brigham, has received a $1 million gift from Karen and Rob Hale through...

For decades, scientists in Berlin have been researching a strange hereditary condition that results in half the members of certain...

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found that a stress response in cells, when ‘switched on’ at...

Climate change is causing the Arctic Ocean’s sea ice to melt away. When the polar ocean loses its cover of...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers have created a model that can calculate the energetics involved when one organism stabs another with...

Berlin, Germany: Patients waiting in an emergency department for urgent surgery are less anxious, more relaxed and experience less pain...

High up in a tree sits a bright red vermilion flycatcher. The males of this songbird species use their red...

Credit: Jocelyn Anderson, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

TAMPA, Fla. (Oct. 18, 2022) – Brad Seibel still remembers the headlines from 20 years ago that sounded like a...

University of Massachusetts Amherst social psychologist Linda Tropp and doctoral student Trisha Dehrone in Tropp’s Intergroup Relations and Social Justice Lab collaborated with the nonprofits American Immigration...

Credit: Grain Foods Foundation. Journal Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine Article Title Refined grain intake and cardiovascular disease: Meta-analyses of prospective...

Many of the drugs we utilize in modern medicine are naturally produced by microbes. Penicillin, an antibiotic derived from certain...