An extinct group of humans that were once widespread in Asia don’t have an official species name – part of the reason is ...

The textbooks say our ancestors lost the ability to make vitamin C because we didn't need it, but the loss may have protected ...

Typically, individuals work less effectively in bigger teams, but weaver ants buck this trend by increasing their power ...

The web is awash with bots that scrape data without permission. Now content creators are poisoning the well of artificial ...

Men typically lose Y chromosomes from their cells as they get older, which could be affecting their heart health ...

Researchers are testing whether increasing UV radiation is altering chemistry of tree leaves, increasing the likelihood and ...

Having a full-time job in later life has been linked to improved emotional, financial and general life satisfaction - but the ...

A carbon dioxide removal company in Canada is experimenting with ways to treat mining waste to capture and store more CO2 ...

Experiments involving AI chatbots interacting on a simulated social media platform suggest efforts to design out antagonistic user behaviour will not succeed ...

Life expectancy has increased dramatically over the past century, but our years of good health appear not to have kept pace.

The numbers of many tropical birds are plummeting, and now it has been shown that heat extremes intensified by global warming ...

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