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The comet was discovered independently in January 2023 by two observatories - China's Tsuchinshan (Purple Mountain) ...

A team of researchers has made an important step in understanding the origins of modern Japanese people. Scientists were able ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — Almost everyone knows about HIV. Fewer people know about its relative, HTLV-1. However, HTLV-1 can cause serious illnesses, including cancer. To develop ways to combat this virus ...

The "Sunday Morning" book reviewer offers his suggestions for fall reading, including new novels by Richard Powers, Rachel Kushner and Danzy Senna.

In this tricky comic thriller, a female American secret agent infiltrates a rural French commune of environmental terrorists ...

Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, the researchers have uncovered a history of genetic intermingling that reveals a ...

ESET Research shares new findings about Telekopye, a scam toolkit used to defraud people on online marketplaces, and newly on ...

It was a new species of hominin, now known as Denisovans, who were the first human cousins identified only by their DNA.

Research shows some African populations have almost no Neanderthal DNA, while those from European or Asian backgrounds have 1 ...

Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them ...

Some years ago, when the topic of the prehistory of the Armenian highlands came up, the first things that would come to mind ...