This AI can tell your biological age just by looking at a few drops of blood
Your birthday might tell you how many years you’ve been alive, but it doesn’t reveal how well your body is holding up. Now, scientists in …
Your birthday might tell you how many years you’ve been alive, but it doesn’t reveal how well your body is holding up. Now, scientists in …
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 …
Being a morning person isn’t necessarily something people go out of their way to become. Early risers might get a head start on the day, …