A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever been detected in human remains, until now. For decades, it has been unclear ...

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Cosmic horror explores the terrifying idea that humanity is insignificant in a vast, uncaring universe filled with forces beyond our understanding. Unlike traditional horror that relies on monsters or ...

For some, the symptoms are more life-threatening, as was the case for Skip Crane, a U.S. Navy and Vietnam War-era veteran. Crane frequently kayaked in the ocean off Imperial Beach until he contracted ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

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An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals capable of detecting and responding to physical tension in DNA. This ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...