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The humans who move to Mars might not remain "human" for very long. Evolution is a powerful force, transcending planetary boundaries. As Rice University biologist Scott Solomon points out in his ...

A new study suggests humans can sense hidden objects without touching them, by detecting faint movements in sand. This unexpected form of “remote touch” challenges traditional ideas about how the ...

AI has passed a new benchmark, scoring better than the average human on a recognized creativity test involving 100,000 people. But there's more to the story than the results, underpinning how ...

Spanish scientists say they have developed a potential breakthrough cure for treating pancreatic cancer, but the new therapy isn't ready for human use yet. Pancreatic cancer forms tumors in the ...

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A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to chimpanzees. By comparing full and half siblings across species and human cultures, ...

A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution. Scientists once believed that our early ancestors took a significant evolutionary leap ...

Life in plastic might be fantastic after all — or at least not as dangerous as we’ve been led to believe. Microplastics are small plastic pieces — less than 5 millimeters long — that typically break ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same cave. The enticing possibility even exists that both species overlapped, ...

As the mercury plummets and back-to-work blues set in for much of humankind in the UK, many other creatures are cosily spending winter in a blissfully dormant state of hibernation. It would be easy to ...