Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

Northwestern University is conducting ongoing research into SuperAgers and just released a new study published in Alzheimer's & Dementia based on 25 years of data collection. SuperAgers are ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown ...

Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited piece of land about the size of seven soccer fields. It was on this unlikely ...

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Looking ahead: Swiss researchers are exploring the frontier of computing by creating processors from living cells, a field known as biocomputing. Their work, though inspired by concepts often seen in ...

Science books, especially those written by scientists, sometimes have the reputation of being dry, dull and difficult. Perhaps they are thought of as thinly disguised textbooks, something to learn ...

Channing Tatum is warning MCU fans that they may not be ready for Avengers: Doomsday. Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday has now wrapped production. Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, also known as ...

When a baby tries to make sense of what they have seen, their brain activity seems to tick at a slower rhythm than it does in adults, which may help them to continually learn new concepts. Our brain ...

Back-to-school time has arrived again, with the usual debates about cell phones, with many schools trying a complete ban. That’s a good start, given what we know about the ill effects of smartphones ...

A baby giggles in her crib, eyes locked on the voice calling her name. She babbles, and a soft plastic robot with blinking eyes responds instantly — mimicking her sounds, reflecting her emotions, ...

The assassination of Charlie Kirk on the campus of Utah Valley University is a human tragedy first: Two young children lost their father; a wife lost her husband. But it is also a cultural tragedy, ...