A landmark review in Nature Reviews Genetics dissects the rare and common genetic variants that shape human height. The paper ...

Note: The project page for this work includes 33 autoplaying high-res videos totaling half a gigabyte, which destabilized my ...

The United States and China are the two superpowers closing in on A.G.I. — systems that will be as smart or smarter than the smartest human and able ... was something only a coalition of ...

But the bombardment has not been the only source of toxicity threatening Iraqis. As the US army drew down its presence in Iraq, it burned huge amounts of military equipment and weapons in so ...

Councils in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba jointly released a policy paper Friday entitled Untapped Potential — Driving Canadian Prosperity Through Natural Resources.

It suggests the human lineage became irrevocably tangled much earlier than we thought. For instance, Neanderthal genes are only present in non-African modern human DNA, making up about 2 percent. The ...

While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion ... and difficulty traveling to far flung rural areas only exacerbates census-counting discrepancies.

This can cause vision changes, like decreased sharpness and structural changes. This can happen after only two weeks in space, and the risk increases as time goes on. Some of these changes will ...

A Texas lawmaker has introduced a bill to ban "non-human behavior" in public schools, such as barking, meowing and other animal-like practices commonly used by furries. The Forbidding Unlawful ...

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 ...

Clicking two parts together with a twist of its servo-controlled wrists, and handing it to a human colleague is a basic task. But it's also an important moment in the much-hyped world of human ...