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What routes did Homo sapiens take on his way from Africa to Europe and Asia in the previous millennia? The climatic conditions changed, and with...

A simple, marine-dwelling creature known as Trichoplax adhaerens has some remarkable properties. The organism can tolerate unusually high doses of radiation that would kill most...

Researchers in Japan used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of secondary school students during a task focused on musical observation. They found that...

Scientists have found a way to prove that biochemical signals sent from cell to cell play an important role in determining how those cells develop.Credit:...

Snakes, some lizards and even a few mammals can have a venomous bite. Although these lineages split more than 300 million years ago, their venoms...

There have been many research efforts describing the nature and progression of dog allergies, but there have been very few applied studies that use this...

When it comes to studying lungs, humans take up all the air, but it turns out scientists have a lot to learn from lizards.Credit: Image...

LA JOLLA, CA—Prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), are fast-moving, fatal dementia syndromes associated with the formation of aggregates of the prion protein, PrP....

A survey of healthcare workers in 57 countries found that while overall preparedness for and awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic were at levels deemed acceptable...

Most of us are familiar with “spinach teeth,” the harmless but gritty-chalky mouthfeel caused by the vegetable.Credit: Image credit: Xiaofeng Cai. Most of us are...

In the sports arena, spectators sometimes create a spectacle known as a wave, as successive groups stand up in unison to yell with arms in...

New research revealing a major migration to the island of Great Britain offers fresh insights into the languages spoken at the time, the ancestry of...

By Emily GreenhalghCredit: Tim Briggs By Emily Greenhalgh WOODS HOLE, Mass. — For generations, scientists have relied on a handful of organisms to study the...

An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Göttingen and Hannover Medical School (MHH) has detected significant changes in the heart muscle tissue of people...

They are at the forefront in the fight against viruses, bacteria, and malignant cells: the T cells of our immune system. But the older we...