A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

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Researchers have found a way to control protein levels inside different tissues of a whole, living animal for the first time.

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The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

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B uried in the leaf litter of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest lie members of what just might be the world's cutest genus. The ...

Nobel Prize- winning American scientist James Dewey Watson, the man who unravelled the ‘secret of life’, passed away on November 6, 2025. Watson, who is widely remembered as the Godfather of ...