Scientists Discover New Permanent Changes Caused by Giving Birth
A study of primates reveals permanent changes in bone composition after birth and breastfeeding. Reproduction permanently alters females’ bones in ways not previously known, a…
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Considered Impossible – New Study of 5 Million People Reveals Genetic Links to Height
The research was the largest-ever genome-wide association study. The study, which was recently published in the journal Nature, is the largest genome-wide association study ever conducted, using the…
Why Do Humans Walk Upright? Harvard Biologists Reveal the Secret
A new study demonstrates how the pelvis evolved for upright walking. If evolutionary biologist Terence D. Capellini were to rank the body parts that define…
7 Million Years Old – New Secrets of the Oldest Representative of Humanity Revealed
A new study reveals that Sahelanthropus tchadensis, the oldest representative species of humanity, was bipedal. It is believed that the development of bipedalism was a…
“Brand New Paradigm” – Scientists Discover How Human Eggs Remain Healthy for Decades
The mystery of how oocytes may become dormant without losing their ability to reproduce has been solved by researchers at the CRG. According to research…
Your Genes Can Determine How Well You Dance
Researchers discover a genetic link between people’s ability to move to the rhythm of music. Since moving in time to musical rhythm is so effortless,…
Good News: Most People Don’t Want To Be Billionaires
The majority of people do not aspire to be billionaires, which is good for the planet The fundamental economic principle that everyone is driven by…
An Avoidable Disaster: Experts Believe That Climate Change Threatens the Health of Billions
Climate change poses a significant danger to people’s health, yet solutions are within reach Climate change is thought to have a vast range of impacts…
Genome Analysis Now Allows Scientists To Predict if You Will Have a Miscarriage
In order to shed light on the genetic cause of female infertility, Rutgers researchers have combined genomic sequencing with machine learning techniques According to Rutgers…
Do Humans and AI Think Alike?
A new technique compares the reasoning of a machine-learning model to that of a human, so the user can see patterns in the model’s behavior….
Scientists Reveal Homo Sapiens’ Secret of Success
A new study argues that the greatest defining feature of our species is not ‘symbolism’ or dramatic cognitive change, but rather its unique ecological position…
Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Evolution Yields New Insights
The evolution of human biology should be considered part and parcel with the evolution of humanity itself, proposes Nicole Creanza, assistant professor of biological sciences….
Scientists Believe Humans Will One Day Colonize the Universe
A new study from the University of Oxford looks at the possibility of human colonization throughout the universe. Scientists as eminent as Stephen Hawking and…
HMP Maps the Healthy Human Microbiome
With microbes outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium looks at how these microorganisms coexist with their human hosts…
Examining the Genes of Stone Age Farmers
New findings from a team of Swedish-Danish evolutionary biologists show that the genetic variation of today’s Europeans was strongly affected by immigrant Stone Age farmers….
Human Presence Increases Indoor Bacteria
Bacteria are everywhere and in much larger amounts than you may realize. A new study looks at how much a lone human presence affects the…
Scientists Discover New Type of Extra-Chromosomal DNA
Scientists from the University of Virginia and University of North Carolina have discovered a previously unidentified type of circular DNA molecule occurring outside the chromosomes…
Human Y-Chromosome Has Enough Genes to Stay for Millions of Years
The male-sex determining Y chromosome is here to stay, having lost only one gene in the last 25 million years, a new study of human…
