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Unlike other primates, humans are exposed to high levels of placental sex hormones in the womb, which may have shaped our ...

Trees would have to be planted on a vast proportion of global land mass to offset the carbon dioxide emissions from burning ...

Rocks in some parts of the UK have the potential to produce natural hydrogen, but it remains unclear whether the gas is ...

Restricting calories has been linked to living longer in many studies, and now it seems that the drug rapamycin has nearly ...

Treating types of cancer with CAR T-cell therapy is expensive and inconvenient, but a streamlined approach that creates the ...

The herpes virus that commonly causes cold sores affects how tightly coiled our DNA is and makes it shrink, all to help ...