A reconstruction of Homo longi, also known as dragon manChuang Zhao The following is an extract from Our Human Story,…
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Until recently the Jebel Irhoud skull was thought to belong to a NeanderthalThe Natural History Museum/Alamy JEBEL IRHOUD, Morocco, 1961. In…
As the summer winds to a close, and we reluctantly trade beach days and late sunsets for cooler weather and…
[]A copper dome recovered from the bottom of the ocean may be the remains of a 17th-century primitive submarine known…
DNA’s 3D shape — its twisted ladders complexly curled into coils and loops — and other features beyond its genetic…
When I (Nakamura) first arrived in the U.S. for a postdoctoral fellowship, the anxiety of speaking English struck the first…
A new study has found that air pollution is preventing pollinators finding flowers because it degrades the scent. A research…
Several key factors influence a person’s chances of survival if they fall from a great height. (Image credit: Shutterstock)The story…
THEY call it the “unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics”. Physicist Eugene Wigner coined the phrase in the 1960s to encapsulate the…
COUNTLESS fad diets come and go, but these days there is one we never stop hearing about. Whether you call…
Ammonia is emerging as a promising energy source to achieve carbon neutrality due to its inherent carbon-free nature. A recent…
Credit: University of Tsukuba In the intense male–male competition for females, males often develop alternative reproductive tactics to achieve successful…
PHYSICS PIONEER “A Hidden Variable behind Entanglement,” Michelle Frank’s article on physicist Chien-Shiung Wu’s early work on entanglement, was such…
A paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hints at the existence of several black…
Credit: Seth Moore Minnesota saw a 58% decline of the moose population in the northeastern part of the state between…
Earth just had its hottest summer in recorded history, data released Wednesday (Sept. 6) by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)…
Research veterinarian Ashley Reeves had a rough week in mid-August. She had hoped to artificially inseminate ocelots at three zoos…
CSIRO worked together with MMRI to train local partners in methods to help with coral reef recovery. Here the team…
Credit: University of Sheffield Household fruit and vegetable production, in allotments and gardens, could be key to a healthy and…
IMAGINE a world in which admission to the top universities – to Oxford or Cambridge, or to Harvard or Yale…
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Early childhood is…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Californians watched in dismay this month as the York fire seared through Mojave National Preserve, igniting…
A team of researchers at Aston University has demonstrated that benchtop spectrometers are capable of analysing pyrolysis bio-oils just as…
Computer scientists and mathematicians working in complex systems at the University of Sydney and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics…
FACEBOOK users used to have a lot more friends. The social networking site pursues a commercial strategy of trying to…
Researchers who created a soft robot that could navigate simple mazes without human or computer direction have now built on…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain We’re thinking more about the food on our plates, and where it comes from, these days.…
WHETHER on page, stage or screen, the story of human health and happiness is often presented as an inevitable…
FEW of us have fully digested the transformation of economies and our own behaviour that is implied by the existential…
At 6 A.M. on a sweltering Saturday in June 2021, Sebastian Francisco Perez began work at Ernst Farm and Nursery,…