NEW YORK — A fossil from Ethiopia is letting scientists look millions of years into our evolutionary history — and they see a face peering back...
NEW YORK — Call them zombie cells — they refuse to die.As they build up in your body, studies suggest, they promote aging and the conditions that...
NEW YORK — Nearly 40 years after it was found by a monk in a Chinese cave, a fossilized chunk of jawbone has been revealed as coming from a...
NEW YORK — Can a genetic test identify newborns at risk of becoming severely obese by middle age? Researchers say they have come up with one, and...
NEW YORK — Hey Kitty! Yes, you. A new study suggests household cats can respond to the sound of their own names.No surprise to you or most cat...
NEW YORK — Scientists report that a fish can pass a standard test of recognizing itself in a mirror — and they raise a question about what that...
NEW YORK — It looks a bit like a hashtag, but it’s 73,000 years old. And scientists say this tiny sketch found in a South African cave is the...
NEW YORK — Ancient periods of cold and dry climate helped our species replace Neanderthals in Europe, a study suggests.Researchers found that such...
NEW YORK — Bones found in 1940 on a western Pacific Ocean island were quite likely to be remains from famed aviator Amelia Earhart, a new analysis...
NEW YORK — From the murky depths of Spanish caves comes a surprising insight: Neanderthals created art.That’s been proposed before, but experts say...
NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time, researchers have used the cloning method that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing...
NEW YORK — What killed off the Neanderthals? It’s a big debate, and now a study says that no matter what the answer, they were doomed anyway.Our...