In mice, blood cell production occurs via strings and clusters of cells within the bone marrow that are responsible for producing specific blood cell types, according to a far-reaching study led by ...

In the past decade, a burst of research has debunked the unflattering reputation 19th-century scientists pinned on Neanderthals. We now know that they were creative, caring, and cognitively similar to ...

The study in brief: Clinical/epidemiological research // Peer-reviewed publication // Researcher-initiated study // Causal correlation // Statistical correlation // Prospective observational study // ...

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...

I listened carefully as the voice seemed to have irreversible confidence that its owner had found directions to the fountain of youth. Later I went back and found the written transcript – “We know we ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Wednesday suggests that a 31,000-year-old young adult skeleton found on the Indonesian island of Borneo could be the earliest known example of human ...

Denying a request by American Indian tribes who sought an immediate burial, a U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday that scientists should be allowed to continue testing on a 9,000-year-old skeleton. The ...

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to let scientists study one of the oldest skeletons ever found in North America. The ruling, which overturned a decision by government officials to give ...

In 1977, archaeologists made a stunning discovery while excavating near the ancient town of Vergina in Northern Greece. The researchers believed that they had found the family of Alexander the Great, ...