The man who first unified China in 221 BCE was so determined to live forever that he commanded a group of alchemists to ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

The coelacanth is a legendary type of fish often mistakenly referred to as a “living fossil.” Despite originating during the Devonian period around 350 million years ... Continue Reading → ...

Solar Energy Research Centre (CIESOL), Joint Centre of the University of Almería-CIEMAT, Carretera de Sacramento s/n, Almería 04120, Spain Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Almería, ...

In a move that could reshape drug discovery, researchers at Harvard Medical School have designed an artificial intelligence model capable of identifying treatments that reverse disease states in cells ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

The Petralona skull was found fused to a cave wall in Greece. © Macedonian Heritage, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the ancestors of modern humans lived alongside Neanderthals and Denisovans. How might their brains have differed, perhaps in a way that conferred an advantage? It’s a ...

Millions of years ago, humans' ancestors lost the function of a specific gene — but switching that gene back on could help protect people from gout, a new experimental study suggests. Gout is a type ...

NEW YORK – Editas Medicine this week said it nominated EDIT-401, an experimental gene-editing therapy being developed as a one-time treatment to reduce LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) levels in hyperlipidemia ...

Recent studies reveal that Neanderthal gene variants affect how modern humans metabolize medications. Individuals with these gene variants metabolize certain drugs, like blood thinners and ...