A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has ...

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has ...

Scientists at Goethe University uncover how the oldest enzyme in cellular respiration functions – opening the door to ...

Ancient microbes illustrate a particular kind of respiration in which carbon dioxide and hydrogen are combined to form acetic ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...

In eastern China, archaeologists brushed away layers of soil to reveal something astonishing: a 7,000-year-old fire-drilling ...

The discovery of human remains in a cave in Poland has amazed archaeologists ... they found hints of the practice of cannibalism among our Ancient European ancestors. However, there are others who do ...

This suggests that human ancestors were more intelligent than previously believed. The ancient tools were discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and are a million years older than any other ...

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries features from both humans and Neanderthals. AP When the humanlike child ...

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The researchers suggested that the child was descended from populations in which humans and Neanderthals mated and mixed. That was a radical notion at the time, but advances in genetics have since ...