New DNA Research Shows Humans Did Not Cause Woolly Mammoths To Go Extinct – Climate Change Did
New DNA research shows the world got too wet for the giant animals to survive. For five million years, woolly mammoths roamed the earth until…
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A Decade of Ancient DNA Analysis Has Taught Scientists “What It Means to Be Human”
A ball of 4,000-year-old hair frozen in time tangled around a whalebone comb led to the first ever reconstruction of an ancient human genome just…
Powerful Algorithms Used by Netflix, Amazon and Facebook Could “Crack the Language of Cancer and Alzheimer’s”
Artificial Intelligence can ‘predict’ the biological language of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, scientists have found. Powerful algorithms used by Netflix, Amazon, and Facebook…
Anti-Aphrodisiac: Male Butterflies Mark Their Mates With Repulsive Smell During Sex to “Turn Off” Other Suitors
Butterflies have evolved to produce a strongly scented chemical in their genitals that they leave behind after sex to deter other males from pursuing their…
Cambridge Researcher Finally Proves One of Darwin’s Evolution Theories
Scientists have proved one of Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution for the first time — nearly 140 years after his death. Laura van Holstein, a…
Physicists Successfully Demonstrated the Squeezing of Individual Light Particles
Using an artificially constructed atom, known as a semiconductor quantum dot, a team of physicists has successfully demonstrated the squeezing of individual light particles. A…