A large genome-wide association study of more than 560,000 people has identified 10 new genetic regions associated with the number of children we have...
Dr. Raj Kurupati and colleagues from the Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania, and Duke University Medical Center showed that an individual’s...
A study led by University College London researchers Neil Garrett and Tali Sharot provides the first empirical evidence that self-serving lies gradually...
Early humans living in southern Africa in the Middle Stone Age after 65,000 years ago used advanced heating techniques to produce silcrete blades, according...
A Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute-led research team is planning a clinical trial using cardiosphere-derived cells to regenerate the tissue and improve function...
Exposure to highly energetic charged particles can lead to a range of potential central nervous system complications that can occur during and persist...
A study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences challenges the popular idea that we should drink 8 glasses of water...
Pie charts show the proportion of chromosomes within different populations worldwide that carry a non-working copy of the FLG gene, a primary risk factor...
An international team of researchers from the United States and Germany today reports having sequenced and annotated the genome of the Philippine tarsier....
A group of researchers in the United Kingdom has identified a set of gene families whose sizes are positively associated with an expanded neocortex —...
A team of researchers at Linköping University in Sweden has identified two genomic regions and five candidate genes associated with dog’s human-directed...
A new technique devised by a team of researchers at the University of Washington leverages the signals already generated by fingerprint sensors on smartphones...
Early Homo sapiens arrived in South America earlier than believed, new research shows.
Sample of stone tools (scrapers, flakes and bipolar cobble) found...
A careful statistical examination of words from 6,000+ languages shows that humans tend to use the same sounds for common objects and ideas, no matter...
A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-led interdisciplinary research team has developed the first-ever biological identification method that exploits...
According to a team of researchers at Loughborough University, UK, many four-year-olds are not physically ready to start school.
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A team of scientists led by Dr. Ole Andreassen of the University of Oslo in Norway and the University of California, San Diego, has found evidence for...
Australian artist Patricia Piccinini, trauma surgeons and crash investigation experts have collaborated to produce ‘Graham,’ an educational tool for...
