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David Samson is associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research ...

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...

Tiny 3D-printed diving suits allow cockroaches to walk underwater for up to 3 hours with no ill effects, which could enable a ...

We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduces infections and cases of cervical cancer, ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...

The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little ...

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

A rare variant of a gene called TP53 means Tracy Hutchinson has an extreme risk of developing cancer anywhere in her body, ...

A study claims that the North Pole Dome crater in Western Australia was caused by an asteroid strike 3 billion years ago, but ...

A woman with severe Alzheimer's disease who hadn't spoken more than monosyllables in years began initiating conversation ...