An extinct group of humans that were once widespread in Asia don’t have an official species name – part of the reason is ...

The web is awash with bots that scrape data without permission. Now content creators are poisoning the well of artificial ...

An unrelated pair of people buried in cemeteries in 7th-century Britain probably had grandparents from West Africa ...

Researchers are testing whether increasing UV radiation is altering chemistry of tree leaves, increasing the likelihood and ...

Typically, individuals work less effectively in bigger teams, but weaver ants buck this trend by increasing their power ...

The textbooks say our ancestors lost the ability to make vitamin C because we didn't need it, but the loss may have protected ...

Men typically lose Y chromosomes from their cells as they get older, which could be affecting their heart health ...

Experiments involving AI chatbots interacting on a simulated social media platform suggest efforts to design out antagonistic user behaviour will not succeed ...

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