New research led by University of the Witwatersrand and University of Southern California paleoanthropologists sheds more light on one of the most debated...
Researchers have identified more than 1,200 locations in the human genome associated with personality traits, offering the most detailed look yet at the...
In a study of 2,266 workers in Finland, evening-type people, or night owls, were up to three times more likely to be treated for depression or anxiety...
Researchers at the University of South Carolina have developed a nanoparticle-based treatment that appears to improve performance on standard memory and...
An enduring debate in paleoanthropology asks what kind of foot the last common ancestor (LCA) of humans and chimpanzees had: one built like a modern ape’s...
Scientists have identified a decades-old chemical compound as a promising new candidate for treating obesity and related metabolic diseases.
TOFA helps...
Researchers at King’s College London have identified a surprising new therapeutic mechanism for a type of heart failure called heart failure with preserved...
Dr. Ian Towle, a researcher with the Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University, proposes folding nearly 5 million years of hominin fossils into...
Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa have identified a molecular pathway that may explain how folic...
In three new studies, researchers at the University of Gothenburg found that adolescents who use nicotine — including e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches...
Neanderthals vanished roughly 42,000 years ago, but a piece of their biology appears to be quietly at work in some people today, according to a new study...
A team of researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Glasgow argues that dietary sugars, not animal foods, may have played the decisive...
Moving a free-roaming cat indoors for good is a decision many owners approach with dread: guilt over confining a former outdoor explorer, worry about litter...
In a perspective paper published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a team of researchers and health experts calls for a ‘paradigm shift’...
New research led by the University of California, Berkeley reveals that beyond Neanderthals and Denisovans, humans interbred with two mysterious ‘ghost’...
A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the story of ancient humans who lived...
A set of 1.43-million-year-old fossil footprints preserved along the margin of an ancient lake in northern Kenya is offering paleoanthropologists new evidence...
Ararat-1, a modest limestone cave that lies at an elevation of 1,034 m on the eastern flanks of the Ararat Depression in central Armenia, has yielded a...
In a new study of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus), scientists found that embraces, touches and other reassuring gestures before...
