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Ancient DNA revealed that our species, Homo sapiens, once interbred with Neanderthals, but what was the nature of those Stone Age encounters tens of thousands of years…

Kallen, K.-J. et al. A novel, disruptive vaccination technology: self-adjuvanted RNActive® vaccines. Hum. Vaccin. Immunother. 9, 2263–2276 (2013).Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar…

For decades, scientists believed the Japanese population largely descended from two ancient groups: the Jomon hunter-gatherers who lived in the archipelago for thousands of years, and later migrants from East Asia who brought rice…

By JUSTIN ENRIQUEZ, US ASSISTANT SHOWBIZ EDITOR Published: 11:12 EDT, 13 May 2026 | Updated: 11:19 EDT, 13 May 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- -->…

A 2024 study that claimed to have discovered an entirely new source of oxygen in the deep sea — dubbed "dark oxygen" — was flawed, inconsistent with previous research, and "fundamentally at odds with thermodynamics," critics argue in a…

Just hours after Netflix ceded the fight for Warner Bros. to Paramount, CNN‘s CEO Mark Thompson tried to alleviate anxieties over the pending new owners in a staff memo: “Despite all the speculation you’ve read during this process, I’d…

Ted Sarandos is not amused and he’s not sitting quietly. The Netflix co-CEO is vigorously making his case on why Netflix should be the ultimate owner of Warner Bros. Discovery. Sarandos has been speaking out forcefully even as the…

Paramount has cleared a 10-day waiting period after responding to a second request for information from the DOJ around its unsolicited offer for Warner Bros. Discovery. The company said today that the expiration of the waiting…

Antarctica looks like a clean white ice sheet from far away, but the important action happens deep down under the surface. There, the ice meets rock, water, and sediments. That contact zone controls how fast a glacier moves and how…

A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human relative that lived alongside Australopithecus afarensis, the species of the famous Lucy. Published in…