Five years after Washington became the first state to legalize natural organic reduction, 13 more states have approved the ...

For decades, the Bhalswa landfill has been one of Delhi’s most visible contradictions — a hulking, smouldering presence on ...

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Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

The rate that our heart or liver ages may differ from that of our immune or hormonal systems, and now it seems that a single ...

It is in complex animals that organs come into their own as a plethora of sophisticated, functional entities. How large that ...

Our bodies do not age at a uniform rate. The speed at which one organ ages can differ greatly from another due to a range of ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

Science journalist Lizzie Wade joins us to talk about her new book investigating the seismic events that humans have faced through history.

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You get older every day. But how old are your cells and organs, really?