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Chips seeded with the astronauts’ bone marrow cells circled the moon to help probe how deep-space flight affects human ...

Beyond moon photos, NASA's AVATAR experiment on Artemis II uses astronaut blood samples on chips to study and solve space's ...

A former candidate to be the US Attorney General has claimed that secret military programs are creating alien-human hybrids ...

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Artificial intelligence is already being used to write romance novels, academic papers and software applications. But how does A.I. stack up against some of the world’s best human writers? Skeptics ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

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Researchers in Turkey say they have unearthed archaeological evidence that the Romans used human feces in medical treatments. Although Roman texts described the practice, this is the first time that ...

Many researchers are surprised and relieved over an unusual step taken by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH): the agency is rolling back the red tape on a host of basic-science experiments ...