The brains of modern humans are around 13% smaller than those of Homo sapiens who lived 100,000 years ago.Exactly why is still puzzling researchers. Traditionally our "big brain" is thought to be what sets our species apart from other anim...
Forty-five per cent of the world's known flowering plants could be threatened by extinction, scientists have warned. Those under threat include orchids, varieties of pineapple, and many important crop species. Of the nearly 19,00...
Ten of the world's most protected forests have become net emitters of carbon, as they are degraded by human activity and climate change. The alarming insight is from a study of planet-warming gases emitted from and ...
Scientists are beginning to paint a clearer picture on just how many people will be affected by climate change if current warming trends continue. About 85% of the world's population already lives in areas experiencing the affects of human-i...
Healthy, young volunteers will be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines and treatments in the world's first Covid-19 "human challenge" study, which will take place in the UK. The study, which has received ethics ap...
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As billions of people across the planet have retreated indoors to combat the spread of the coronavirus, wildlife roams more freely. Empty streets and the absence of people have made animals bolder while animals normally dependent on tourists, de...
Since February, California-based manufacturer CloudMinds has shipped more than 100 robots to China. Many of those have gone to hospitals, where the XR-1 provides information to patients and helps guide visitors to the right department. The ...
There's a new addition to the family tree: an extinct species of human that's been found in the Philippines. It's known as Homo luzonensis, after the site of its discovery on the country's largest island Luzon. Its physical features ar...
Matt Gutman: Caravan is a 'mass of humanity' heading toward U.S. border...
The US has pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling it a "cesspool of political bias". Nikki Haley, the US envoy to the UN, said it was a "hypocritical" body that "makes a mockery of human rights"....
More than half of your body is not human, say scientists. Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists. Understanding this hidden half of ourselves - our microbiome - is rapidly transformin...
One Missouri woman came up with a unique way to cherish her family’s Thanksgiving memories each year — and she couldn’t be more grateful that she did. In 2000, Deb Mills of Clinton began the holiday tradition of having each...
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have unveiled \\"Nadine,\\" a socially intelligent, human-looking robot complete with \\"her own personality, mood and emotions,\\" according to a university news release...
The Amazon rainforest, Vietnam's Halong Bay and Argentina's Iguazu Falls were named among the world's new seven wonders of nature, according to organizers of a global poll. The other four crowned are South Korea's Jeju Island, Indonesia's Komodo, the...
\\"The Natural World Close-up\\" (Firefly Books) showcases more than 300 extraordinary close-up photographs from nature. These are the closest views that technology will allow, the publisher says. Take a guess at what are you are viewing in thi...
Journalist: President Hu, first of all my colleague asked you a question about human rights which you did not answer. I was wondering if you’d give an answer to that question and then also on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader(多数党领导人) H...
Archaeologists in Israel uncover teeth that date back about 400,000 years that could alter the theory of man's origin in Africa. ...
Discovery News updated 12:04 p.m. ET May 10, 2010 Human stem cells(干细胞) grown in a rotating vessel(旋转舱) to simulate(模拟) microgravity(失重) are vastly different from those allowed to develop under normal conditions, a new study shows....
Photo by Wolfgang Staudt In the previous post of this waterfall series, I wrote a list of the 5 tallest waterfalls in the world. I bet some of you were surprised not to hear more famous waterfalls or to see that the ‘big boys’ are not t...