A study led by researchers at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health found that both maternal and paternal ...

Infertility is a major global challenge associated with physiological and psychological impact. Genetic mutations that affect ...

One of the mutations was also seen in a virus sample taken from a teenager in British ... attach to a type of cell receptor that is rare in human upper airways, which is believed to be one of ...

The findings could impact our understanding of when modern humans reached regions like East Asia and Australia Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent A cast of a Neanderthal skull at the Chemnitz ...

The Moon holds incredible promise as a stepping stone for human exploration and a potential source of resources to sustain life on Earth and beyond. But history has shown us the consequences of ...

Here are three of many, many examples: ‐“Human life begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm unites with a female gamete or oocyte (ovum) to form a single cell ...

The long-held theory of human evolution says that modern humans originated in Africa and then migrated to other parts of the world. However, that “out of Africa” model is being challenged by a ...

Prof Geoffrey Hinton says the technology is developing faster than he expected and needs government regulation Artificial intelligence could wipe out the human race within the next decade ...

But all of that is outweighed by the plastic, concrete and other material that humans have produced in the last century alone in the form of everything from roads and skyscrapers to cars ...

While one would be hard-pressed to find virtually any similarities between ants and humans, the two species seem to share an unusual ability despite their seemingly unbridgeable differences—they ...

A team studying the group behavior of ants has found that, in the right circumstances, ants can outsmart humans in collective problem-solving tasks. Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories.