“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

Evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks talks to The Conversation Weekly about AI’s potential to influence our evolution.

A new study in the peer-reviewed journal Stem Cells and Development highlights the potential of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) as a therapeutic strategy for high-dose ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

In a new study published in Developmental Cell on April 8, a research team led by Prof. WU Qingfeng at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

In February 2017, Johnson & Johnson Innovation led a $25 million Series A funding round for Fusion Pharmaceuticals, a startup focused on targeted cancer radiotherapeutics. The funding supports its ...

DNA sequences for the chimpanzee, orangutans and more will help scientists to determine what sets humans apart from other ...

"In principle, extraction is possible, and it could be a clean and efficient solution to the complex energy problems we will ...

The IAEA is supporting experts from around the world in using nuclear techniques such as radiation-based technology to understand and preserve cultural heritage.

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

The new work has taken female mice into space to live on board the International Space Station (ISS) for 37 days and observed ...