Shigella causes about 450,000 U.S. infections each year. An experimental oral vaccine protected adults in a small human trial ...

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Scientists recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls for the first time. Refined, the method could help link prehistoric ...

A small study suggests emotional fit, not perfect accuracy, may make chatbot versions of dead loved ones feel real.

A new generation of therapies aims to intervene at a recently discovered gap between the disease’s molecular march and its ...

In 2021, local journalists reported that the University of Pennsylvania had been keeping human remains from the ...

In sci-fi, AI can navigate the unknowns and — ideally — keep human travelers safe. But it’s not intelligent enough to do that ...

Astronomers found a helium atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet — a good sign for the search for life outside the solar system ...

Ultimate success,” says the synthetic biologist, would be that “all the atoms we’re moving in our economy are moved with ...

Clinical trial results show an experimental drug lowered tau levels in the brain and slowed some memory loss, but the data ...

The brine-formed meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey roof in 2024 could teach us about how life first arrived on Earth.

A Maya calendar formula bears the name Sak Tahn Waax, the first known Classic Maya mathematician-astronomer directly credited ...