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A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a ...

A new ion superhighway modeled after human cells could speed our batteries way up. Digging out a nanochannel for charged ions ...

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago ...

In a ground-breaking new development, researchers have created conductive films by mixing conductive polymers with ...

Both studies had similar aims: to follow their recruits over their lifetimes and observe how various factors would impact ...

When Herman Pontzer began studying the metabolisms of the Hadza, a tribe of modern hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, for a 2012 ...

Brain size increased gradually within each ancient human species rather than through sudden leaps between species.

It’s being called the heartbeat of Philadelphia. Anybody who has ever visited The Franklin Institute knows all about the ...

The Dutch scientist designs the world’s smallest machines, including light-activated drugs to improve treatments for cancer ...

Researchers working in Austria have observed in mice that some anti-inflammatories thwart the trick tumors use to evade ...

Recently, a research group led by Prof. HUANG Chaoqun from the Hefei lnstitutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of ...