An IAEA research project involving 27 countries has strengthened global understanding of how exposure to ionizing radiation affects human health. The project focused on the clinical applications of ...

An unusual household appliance has been launched on the market in Japan: a washing machine for people. The 7.5-feet-long capsule (that’s 2.30 meters) was unveiled at the World Expo [PDF], which took ...

As we age, the human brain rewires itself. The process happens in distinct phases, or “epochs,” according to new research, as the structure of our neural networks changes and our brains reconfigure ...

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Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on record? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

AI is quickly and dramatically reshaping society, and it’s hard to avoid the changes sweeping through industry as well as our personal lives. As with anything so world-changing (not forgetting ...

An international team of scientists has decoded some of the most stubborn, overlooked regions of the human genome using complete sequences from 65 individuals across diverse ancestries. This milestone ...

Sheriff's deputies arrested an alleged prankster on Monday and accused him of planting a creepy teddy bear that looked like it was made of bloody human tissue, officials said. Hector Corona Villanueva ...