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Earth is thought to have begun to develop its modern, oxygen-rich atmosphere as recently as 800 million years ago. This ...

The effects of blood on aging were first discovered in experiments that stitched young and old mice together so that ...

Can tiny brains grown in a dish reveal the secrets of sociability? Balls of brain tissue generated from stem cells ...

...[A] team at the University of Queensland in Australia has managed to achieve long-lasting gene silencing inside plant cells. They ...

Some viruses might cause weaker symptoms in women than in men because it makes them more likely to spread. Many ...

Elseline Hoekzema at Leiden University in the Netherlands and her team compared brain scans of 25 first-time mothers with those ...

Laetoli in northern Tanzania is the site of iconic ancient footprints, capturing the moment – 3.66 million years ago – ...

In 2015, a little girl called Layla was treated with gene-edited immune cells that eliminated all signs of the leukemia ...

[F]arming is the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, only slightly behind heating and electricity. ... The one ...

What is gene therapy? [Gene therapy] is a way to fix a gene defect in a person’s cells. One way ...

Zika virus no longer represents a public health emergency, the World Health Organisation announced on [Nov. 18]. On the face ...

The Neanderthals, who once colonized Europe and Asia, became extinct about 30,000 years ago – but not before interbreeding with ...

Genetically modified crops could help us grow more food on less land in a world struggling to cope with climate ...

If you could implant a device in your brain to enhance your intelligence, would you do it? [Bryan Johnson, the ...

Women who are overweight while pregnant are more likely to have babies who are biologically older than those born to ...

Higher maternal age and assisted reproduction are both linked to congenital anomalies, including Down’s syndrome, heart defects and cleft palates, ...

For the first time, brain stimulation has made it possible for a paralyzed person to experience the sensation of touch ...

How young will you be when you get cancer? The number of mutations you have in different genes can bring ...

The first babies to be created using a “three-parent” method to overcome their parents’ infertility are due to be born ...

When a woman stops breastfeeding, her breasts go from being full-time, milk-producing factories to regular appendages...Now a molecular switch has ...

Continuing for months after birth, armies of neurons migrate through a baby’s brain, until they reach their destination. Now researchers ...

A baby boy has been born using DNA from three people – the first ever birth resulting from a new ...

A five-month-old boy is the first baby to be born using a new technique that incorporates DNA from three people... The ...

Compulsory DNA testing of all citizens and visitors sounds like an Orwellian nightmare, but this is the new reality [for ...

While a leading theory suggests our visual experiences are linked to our understanding of numbers, a study of people who ...

Healthy mice have been created using sperm and cells that aren’t quite eggs for the first time. New Scientist questions ...

[C]arb cravings can be hard to resist[, but n]ow there’s evidence that carbohydrate-rich foods may elicit a unique taste too, ...

Here’s another layer of confusion to add to the uncertainty of going through IVF. The type of liquid a lab ...