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In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have ...

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The Human Organ Atlas gives an extremely detailed look at 56 human organs, scanned with the help of a particle accelerator.

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A new study suggests that for the last 74,000 years, malaria shaped where early humans could live in Africa—fragmenting ...

Can you measure the weight of a human soul? No, but that didn’t stop Duncan MacDougall from trying. In the early 20th century ...

The SETI Institute announced the launch of the Discovery and Futures Lab, a new interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

Prepare yourselves, folks – there’s an adorably scrungly new baby bird in town at San Antonio Zoo. The young Micronesian ...

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