What is a living fossil? Learn more about the living fossils among us and why this topic is highly debated among scientists.

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In a groundbreaking UK first, eight healthy babies have been born using an IVF technique that includes DNA from three ...

Gaining a better understanding of how romantic relationships develop over time is key to helping couples maintain a satisfying union and overcome challenges. Researchers and practitioners rely on ...

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Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...

The rising median age of people around the world has the same effect, since cancer can take decades to develop and therefore afflicts the elderly more than the young. Strip out the effects of ...

The government has been found to have no legal duty to protect Torres Strait Islanders from climate change. That’s not the ...

Humans have feasted since the dawn of agriculture – but a new find suggests the practice of bringing exotic food to a ...

More than 96% of deforestation, or human-caused, permanent removal of forest cover, occurs in the tropics.

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If memories are the black box of our past, they can also shed light on the present by giving meaning to new situations. But how does memory retrieve either surface matches (based on same places, same ...