Gene therapy, a technique that is revolutionizing the treatment of multiple genetic conditions, including eye and muscle diseases and blood disorders, requires efficient and specific delivery of the ...

A new study published in Nature offers the most detailed map to date of how individual cell types in the brain change with age. Scientists analyzed over 1.2 million brain cells from young and aged ...

Neurons communicate with each other by passing millisecond-long signals across tiny junctions called synapses. Experiences ...

What's more, according to their analysis of modern human DNA, one of these isolated populations left a stronger legacy in our genes than the other. "The question of where we come from is one that has ...

However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the weightlessness of space can take years from which to fully recover. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore ...

Black Americans experience a higher burden of heart disease, including clogged arteries (atherosclerosis), due to factors like higher rates of diabetes, obesity, and smoking, and often have less ...

For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, and descended from a single ...

The excavation and research team at Atapuerca receives funding from the Castille and León Department of Culture and Tourism, the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PID2021 ...

Drawing on data from the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, Newsweek has created this map to show countries on the Human Rights Watchlist. CIVICUS categorizes civil rights into five distinct levels—open ...

“Where other AI stops at generating ideas, Manus delivers results. We see it as the next paradigm of human-machine collaboration.” Within days of launching, invitation codes to join early ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Let’s talk about the biggest coincidence in human ...