Month: April 2013

Using a miniature electronic device implanted in the brain, scientists have tapped into the internal…

According to a new study, our Australopithecus ancestors may have used different approaches to getting…

Scientists have shown that temporarily blocking a protein critical to immune response actually helps the…

It’s been known for decades that animals such as chimpanzees seek out medicinal herbs to…

Scientists have pieced together how the hominid Australopithecus sediba (Au. sediba) walked, chewed, and moved…

Researchers have identified the defective gene responsible for a rare disorder in which children are…

When it comes to delivering genes to living human tissue, the odds of success come…

Hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 might appear…

An anthropologist recently found that even when multiple individuals can contribute to a common cause,…

Freshmen women spend nearly half their day — 12 hours — engaged in some form…