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The discovery of ancient clay beads made by children and adults thousands of years before the use of pottery suggests a ritualistic purpose ...

Learn how early humans in Israel’s Natufian period used clay ornaments to express identity, share skills, and build social ...

A sweeping new analysis of the world’s oceans has turned up an unsettling finding for California and beyond: human-made chemicals, from prescription drugs and pesticides to the telltale fingerprints ...

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Researchers identify a neural "fingerprint" in the brain that predicts how accurately we can size up the intentions and strategies of others.

Researchers have found evidence of nuclear metabolic enzymes for the first time, contributing to our understanding of cancer ...

A leading climate scientist says he can 'no longer safely' do his work in America due to the Trump administration's attacks ...

More than two hundred metabolic enzymes, many of which are normally tasked with producing energy in the mitochondria, are also found sitting directly on top of human DNA, according to a study ...

Benjamin Santer has spent much of his career showing that global warming leaves a clear “fingerprint” in the atmosphere. Now, he’s using the same tools – data, models, and peer review – to respond to ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic analysis ...