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You Could Be Carrying Up To 4 Percent Neanderthal DNA – And It May Be Weakening Your Virus DefensesEpstein-Barr virus

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You Could Be Carrying Up To 4 Percent Neanderthal DNA – And It May Be Weakening Your Virus DefensesEpstein-Barr virus
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You Could Be Carrying Up To 4 Percent Neanderthal DNA – And It May Be Weakening Your Virus Defenses

clock-iconMay 29, 2026

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Denisovan DNA From 3 Distinct Populations Found In Modern Humans, Revealing Hidden Complexity In How Ancient Hominins Interacted With Our AncestorsSoutheast Asian people

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Denisovan DNA From 3 Distinct Populations Found In Modern Humans, Revealing Hidden Complexity In How Ancient Hominins Interacted With Our AncestorsSoutheast Asian people
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Denisovan DNA From 3 Distinct Populations Found In Modern Humans, Revealing Hidden Complexity In How Ancient Hominins Interacted With Our Ancestors

clock-iconMay 26, 2026

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Why Just 2 Percent Of Humans Have Green Eyes, The Rarest Eye Color In The WorldClose up from green eye iris

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Why Just 2 Percent Of Humans Have Green Eyes, The Rarest Eye Color In The WorldClose up from green eye iris
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Why Just 2 Percent Of Humans Have Green Eyes, The Rarest Eye Color In The World

clock-iconMay 15, 2026
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First-Of-Its-Kind “Deep Profiling” Reveals That Where You Live May Impact How Quickly You Agefigures representing the same person at different ages, overlaid on a simple world map

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First-Of-Its-Kind “Deep Profiling” Reveals That Where You Live May Impact How Quickly You Agefigures representing the same person at different ages, overlaid on a simple world map
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First-Of-Its-Kind “Deep Profiling” Reveals That Where You Live May Impact How Quickly You Age

clock-iconMay 15, 2026

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HIV Was Quietly Influencing Human Evolution. Antiretroviral Therapy Stopped It In Its TracksScanning electron micrograph of an HIV-infected H9 T cell, colorized in Halloween colors

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HIV Was Quietly Influencing Human Evolution. Antiretroviral Therapy Stopped It In Its TracksScanning electron micrograph of an HIV-infected H9 T cell, colorized in Halloween colors
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HIV Was Quietly Influencing Human Evolution. Antiretroviral Therapy Stopped It In Its Tracks

clock-iconApril 27, 2026

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Evolution By Natural Selection Has Still Been Shaping The Human Species Over The Last 10,000 Years: Here's Howskulls lined up on a shelf.

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Evolution By Natural Selection Has Still Been Shaping The Human Species Over The Last 10,000 Years: Here's Howskulls lined up on a shelf.
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Evolution By Natural Selection Has Still Been Shaping The Human Species Over The Last 10,000 Years: Here's How

clock-iconApril 27, 2026

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The Archaeology Of Illness – How Scientists Reconstruct Ancient Diseases From Ancient RemainsA photo showing a skull and assorted bones laying around it in a tight pile. The bones are covered in dried soil to the extent that the skull's eye sockets are filled with it. The bones are resting on what look to be clay slabs and are surrounded by an dry earthy ground.

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The Archaeology Of Illness – How Scientists Reconstruct Ancient Diseases From Ancient RemainsA photo showing a skull and assorted bones laying around it in a tight pile. The bones are covered in dried soil to the extent that the skull's eye sockets are filled with it. The bones are resting on what look to be clay slabs and are surrounded by an dry earthy ground.
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The Archaeology Of Illness – How Scientists Reconstruct Ancient Diseases From Ancient Remains

clock-iconApril 25, 2026

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Scientists Made Mice Fear A Smell They'd Never Experienced – But It Had Traumatized Their ParentsA lab mouse in a tank.

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Scientists Made Mice Fear A Smell They'd Never Experienced – But It Had Traumatized Their ParentsA lab mouse in a tank.
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Scientists Made Mice Fear A Smell They'd Never Experienced – But It Had Traumatized Their Parents

clock-iconApril 23, 2026

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“The Old ‘Did Neanderthals Even Speak?’ Question" Is "Very Hard To Sustain”: Genetic Hardware For Language Abilities Evolved Long Before Modern Humans AppearedNeanderthal skull

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“The Old ‘Did Neanderthals Even Speak?’ Question" Is "Very Hard To Sustain”: Genetic Hardware For Language Abilities Evolved Long Before Modern Humans AppearedNeanderthal skull
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“The Old ‘Did Neanderthals Even Speak?’ Question" Is "Very Hard To Sustain”: Genetic Hardware For Language Abilities Evolved Long Before Modern Humans Appeared

clock-iconApril 22, 2026

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Natural Selection Shaped Hundreds More Human Genes Than We Thought, Massive Ancient DNA Study FindsThe DNA sequence of CCR5 Delta 32 gene mutation

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Natural Selection Shaped Hundreds More Human Genes Than We Thought, Massive Ancient DNA Study FindsThe DNA sequence of CCR5 Delta 32 gene mutation
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Natural Selection Shaped Hundreds More Human Genes Than We Thought, Massive Ancient DNA Study Finds

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Scarlet Fever Bacterium Discovered In Pre-Columbian Mummy, Suggesting Disease Was Present In Americas Long Before Europeans ArrivedA close up photo of a yellowed tooth. The specimen is laying on its side, facing the left. Its surface is coated in a rough darker-brown layer and then a coating of white/yellowish patches at its base.

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Scarlet Fever Bacterium Discovered In Pre-Columbian Mummy, Suggesting Disease Was Present In Americas Long Before Europeans ArrivedA close up photo of a yellowed tooth. The specimen is laying on its side, facing the left. Its surface is coated in a rough darker-brown layer and then a coating of white/yellowish patches at its base.
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Scarlet Fever Bacterium Discovered In Pre-Columbian Mummy, Suggesting Disease Was Present In Americas Long Before Europeans Arrived

clock-iconApril 16, 2026

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"You Have To Iterate, You Have To Fail, You Have To Quickly Pick Yourself Up": Genome Loaded Onto Quantum Computer For First TimeGlowing DNA symbol on abstract blue background, closeup.

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"You Have To Iterate, You Have To Fail, You Have To Quickly Pick Yourself Up": Genome Loaded Onto Quantum Computer For First TimeGlowing DNA symbol on abstract blue background, closeup.
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"You Have To Iterate, You Have To Fail, You Have To Quickly Pick Yourself Up": Genome Loaded Onto Quantum Computer For First Time

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The Genetic Risk Of Inbreeding Explainedhasburgs jaw

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The Genetic Risk Of Inbreeding Explainedhasburgs jaw
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The Genetic Risk Of Inbreeding Explained

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“Why Did This Evolve? It Didn’t. It Was Already There”: 100-Year-Old Mystery Of Why Mitochondria Sometimes Look Like Strings Of Pearls Finally Solvedcolorful microscope images in a three by three grid, showing mitochondria that are squised to look like strings of beads with colourful nucleoids inside them; the style is reminiscent of pop art

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“Why Did This Evolve? It Didn’t. It Was Already There”: 100-Year-Old Mystery Of Why Mitochondria Sometimes Look Like Strings Of Pearls Finally Solvedcolorful microscope images in a three by three grid, showing mitochondria that are squised to look like strings of beads with colourful nucleoids inside them; the style is reminiscent of pop art
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“Why Did This Evolve? It Didn’t. It Was Already There”: 100-Year-Old Mystery Of Why Mitochondria Sometimes Look Like Strings Of Pearls Finally Solved

clock-iconApril 2, 2026

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Are The Secrets Of Long Life Kept In The Oldest Organism's Genome?Photo of the oldest non-clonal tree in the world, Methuselah.

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Are The Secrets Of Long Life Kept In The Oldest Organism's Genome?Photo of the oldest non-clonal tree in the world, Methuselah.
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Are The Secrets Of Long Life Kept In The Oldest Organism's Genome?

clock-iconMarch 25, 2026