When two defective gene variants combine, normal protein function can sometimes be restored.

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

Some of these ‘remedies’ included human feces, powdered lizards and hippo teeth.

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

Every medication in your cabinet, every material in your phone's battery, and virtually every compound that makes modern life work started as a molecular guess, with scientists hypothesizing that a ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant glowing iron bar across the Ring Nebula. Its origin is unknown, defying models of stellar ...

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International ...

This experiment is the first confirmation of an abstract framework. Chinese scientists make groundbreaking discovery in ...

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A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

Scientists discovered two rare ant-fly species in India, hiding inside ant nests. Metadon ghorpadei was found in Delhi and Metadon reemeri was found in Western Ghats, highlighting hidden biodiversity ...