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Bigger brains may have evolved in humans because smarter people have more...
Humans are the only ultra-social creature on the planet. We have outcompeted, interbred or even killed off all other hominin species. We cohabit in cities of tens of millions of people and, despite...
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A dinosaur tooth discovered in Appalachia suggests big horned dinosaurs may...
Some dinosaur discoveries get coverage equal in size to the animal’s stature. The announcement of “The Titanosaur”, currently looming over visitors to the American Museum of Natural History, was...
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Australian scientists just found these mysterious sea creatures more than 2...
The abyss, the deep water off Australia, has given up some of its secrets.A team of 40 international scientists, including those from Museums Victoria and the CSIRO, have just returned from an...
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The tick that makes people allergic to red meat with one bite seems to be...
With most food allergies, it only takes 15 or 20 minutes after being exposed before severe reactions occur. A bite of shrimp or lobster and before long, a person's throat starts to close and parts of...
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Millions of glowing tropical sea creatures have started to appear in the...
Millions of strange-looking glowing sea creatures called pyrosomes have started to "bloom" off the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the US and Canada, filling up fishing nets, clogging hooks and...
View ArticleFirst ever close-up footage of DNA replication will have experts rewriting...
For the first time, scientists have recorded DNA replication in real time. The scientists extracted DNA from E. coli bacteria, dyed it, and then watched the DNA replicate itself. The footage, alone, is...
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Peter Thiel gave $100,000 to the scientists trying to resurrect the woolly...
Woolly mammoths could be coming to a park near you sometime before 2027, thanks to funding from PayPal founder and tech luminary Peter Thiel.That's according to a new book by Ben Mezrich called...
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Scientists are questioning the idea that the human lifespan has a limit
Jeanne Calment, the French woman who holds the record for the longest verified lifespan, died in 1997 at 122 years old.Few people, of course, ever become supercentenarians — 110 years old or older —...
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Scientists say we're witnessing the planet's sixth mass extinction — and...
When kids learn about extinction in school, they're told about creatures that have disappeared from the planet, and those that are endangered.But rarely are they told that we are currently witnessing a...
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20 million bacteria-infected mosquitoes are getting released into a...
Verily, the life sciences branch of Alphabet (Google's parent company), has started releasing millions of mosquitoes in California.The team behind the project — made up of scientists from Verily,...
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Running would have broken a Tyrannosaurus Rex's legs, new research shows
Jurassic Park's most iconic scenes should have run a little slower, based on new research suggesting our favourite dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex, couldn't manage more than a walk.Calculating the top...
View ArticleThese are the longest-living life-forms on Earth
What is the true longest-living life-form? Tortoises, whales, and trees are all likely to be the winners. However, some microscopic species are the answer for this. They have been alive since before...
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Five comic-book superpowers that animals actually have
Evolution has been occurring for billions of years, producing organisms that are perfectly adapted to their environments. And this includes abilities that we would normally consider superpowers if...
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Here's what it actually means to die 'of old age'
Ever heard someone say their family member "died of old age"?That's almost never what actually happened, at least from a medical perspective. Aging in and of itself is not a cause of death. When most...
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In a first, scientists have edited the DNA of human embryos that could turn...
In a step that some of the nation’s leading scientists have long warned against and that has never before been accomplished, biologists in Oregon have edited the DNA of viable human embryos efficiently...
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A tiny part of the brain could orchestrate the whole body’s aging, suggests a...
Why do we age? It’s a seemingly simple question that nonetheless scientists don’t have a great answer to. Some amount of aging seems to be controlled by our genetic makeup, while other evidence shows...
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Scientists have edited the DNA of human embryos using CRISPR – now we need to...
The announcement by researchers in Portland, Oregon that they’ve successfully modified the genetic material of a human embryo took some people by surprise.With headlines referring to “groundbreaking”...
View ArticleThe author of the 5:2 diet explains why eating healthy is more important than...
Doctor Michael Mosley, author of the 5:2 diet and the "Clever Guts Diet", spoke to Business Insider UK and explained why a healthy diet is much more important than exercise when it comes to losing...
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Scientists have figured out what the world's first flower looked like 140...
Although most species of plants on Earth have flowers, the evolutionary origin of flowers themselves are shrouded in mystery. Flowers are the sexual organs of more than 360,000 species of plants alive...
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Scientists edited the DNA of human embryos that could become people for the...
A team of scientists from the US, China, and South Korea successfully altered the DNA of human embryos that could theoretically become people for the first time in history.They successfully altered a...
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