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More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Humans and most other animals are known to be strongly driven by expected rewards or adverse consequences. The process of ...

If a pig embryo infused with human cells truly became something close enough to count as a member of the human species, then ...

Monkeys have been test subjects for infectious diseases for decades. However, that will soon come to an end, according to the ...

Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types. Now, researchers have succeeded for the first time in recreating this ...

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the last of the northern white rhinos. But scientists are only beginning to ...