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Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe to Central and Eastern ...

Creatine, the supplement popular with athletes for its ability to help build strength and power, is increasingly being ...

In one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of its kind, a research team led at UC San Francisco has identified the regions where dementia occurs most often.

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Look, we all think platypuses are weird. Just one look at these beaver-tailed, egg-laying, duck-billed weirdos makes you wonder how we're even both mammals. But I have news for you - whe ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn intense criticism—much of it deserved—for his stance on vaccines. But lost in the uproar is a ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

In Russia in 1997, an unfortunate technician answered the question, “what would have happened if the ‘Demon Core’ was never stopped in 1946?” This episode of [H ...

Solar power is growing by leaps and bounds in the United States, propelled by climate mitigation policies and carbon-free ...

The Appalachian Mountains are some of the oldest geological features on earth. And they also hold fossils that tell us about ...