An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries. Few apes ...

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 ...

How serious is America about human rights?-Part II Posted on March 20th, 2011 ... Ms. Butenis makes no mention of the failed role of NGOs in making peace, or in protecting human rights under ...

Microgravity affects various aspects of the human body. According to NASA, microgravity leads to changes in fluid distribution, muscle loading, and altered signalling pathways. Some basic changes ...

While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion ... with spatial information from satellite imagery.” Part of this discrepancy likely stems from the fact that ...

(NewsNation) — Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, as well as two other NASA astronauts, have left the International Space Station after being stuck for nine months after a Boeing test flight. The return ...

Ohio University (OU), USA, is now offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Asante Twi, a dialect of the Akan language spoken in Ghana. On the university’s website, it states ...

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 ...

Spending months in microgravity is brutal on the body. Without the Earth’s gravitational pull, muscles shrink, bones weaken and bodily fluids shift. Astronauts lose muscle mass rapidly because ...

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 ...

Some of the health risks astronauts face in deep space are well-documented and managed This photo provided by NASA shows the four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission, including NASA ...