Researchers extended mice lifespans by 33%, but will it work on humans?
What if tweaking your diet could add years—or even decades—to your life? According to research published in Cell Metabolism, adjusting one specific nutrient intake could …
What if tweaking your diet could add years—or even decades—to your life? According to research published in Cell Metabolism, adjusting one specific nutrient intake could …
Trust is a huge part of humanity’s psychological foundation. It plays a vital part in friendships, relationships, family dynamics, and at work. So, knowing whom …
Scientists say that the seasonal changes in daylight—longer days in summer and shorter days in winter—have long had an effect on human behavior. However, they’ve …
Air pollution is a massive problem. Outdoors, though, the sun, falling rain, and even oxidation that happens naturally help clear the air. But, when you’re …
Scientists will soon begin a clinical trial for a new liver disease treatment. The experimental treatment will hopefully help treat end-stage liver disease and reduce …
You probably don’t think twice about chewing, but scientists now say the evolution of chewing could have played a major role in how humans evolved …
All living creatures evolve over the years, adapting to their immediate living conditions in order to survive. That includes humans as well, who have evolved …
Scientists have been monitoring the development of a new evolutionary change in humans. More people are being born with an “extra” artery running down their …
Researchers have discovered that pots like those found at some archaeological sites may hold the clues to revealing ancient cooking habits. The pots were found …
Researchers have found evidence of microplastics in human body tissue for the first time. Using a new technique, scientists sampled 47 pieces of organ tissue …
Researchers have discovered a new type of taste cell that can detect the full rank of taste stimuli. The cells are different from the previously …
Neanderthals mixed with humans a long time ago, but after they died out their DNA lived on in a large segment of the human population. …
In the quest to make robots more human-like, the holy grail has always been a humanoid machine that is as indistinguishable from a real person …
Sometime within the next five years or so, NASA plans on sending humans back to the Moon. Looking to the future, NASA is laying the …
You might not think we have much in common with a race of ancient people that died out tens of thousands of years ago, but …
Humans have very advanced brains — or at least we think that’s the case based on what we know about life from an admittedly small …
Earth is a pretty big place, but it has a finite amount of resources. Mining companies that seek to exploit untouched parts of our planet …
If you find yourself constantly tweaking your home’s thermostat in search of the perfect temperature, you might save some time by just moving to eastern …
Everyone knows that obesity is a major health crisis in the United States and many other countries, but humans aren’t just getting fatter, we’re also …
It might be tempting to imagine our ancient ancestors as simply less sophisticated versions of ourselves, but scientists know that there are some very big …
For many years the consensus among archaeologists was that humans began settling in North America around 13,000 years ago. This timeline was based on artifacts …
Humans aren’t the fastest animals on the planet, so you might not think the fact that we can run is anything special. There are, after …
The amount of information we have about the human family tree is steadily growing, but there are still plenty of unanswered questions. One of the …
In news that should surprise absolutely no one, scientists now believe an ancient ancestor of modern humans died off because they were too lazy for …
We take bread for granted these days but exactly when it popped up in the timeline of human advancement is still a bit of a …
It’s a well-known quirk of human nature that adults tend to talk to babies in an over-the-top, cartoony tone of voice. Science calls it “infant-directed …
Have you ever wondered why land animals are so small today? Fossils have shown us that many dinosaurs were absolutely massive beasts, evolving over millions …