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Public-health officials make plans for how to speed up responses to tropical-disease outbreaks.

The study finds evidence that 50,000 to 200,000 years ago, natural selection drove changes in six genes involved in brain development. This may have helped to increase the connectivity of […]

The hunt for the fountain of youth is back to square one — at least for those seeking it in blood. New findings cast doubt on research that attempted to […]

Genome of 40,000-year-old jaw from Romania suggests humans interbred with Neanderthals in Europe.

Aeroplane detects signature spike in photons that does not fit any known source of antiparticles.

It’s time to ask uncomfortable questions about the brain mechanisms that allow ‘ordinary’ people to turn violent.

Unknown satellites pose danger to New Horizons mission as it journeys to the edge of the Solar System.

Although fjords account for about 0.3% of Earth’s surface area, they sequester 18 million tonnes of carbon per year — 11% of the total absorbed by marine sediment, researchers report […]

Materials scientists have devised a way to grow single layers of a promising class of 2D semiconductor on silicon wafers that are 10 centimetres across — all the while maintaining […]