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The explosive discovery of a tiny, enigmatic hominin in an Indonesian cave in 2003 captivated the world. Now, 20 years later, scientists are still struggling to understand the hobbit’s place in the human family tree.

Based on scientific evidence, it's likely that humans have spent millions of years honing their distance running skills. However, it's rare that humans run to hunt prey, if at all, making us sedentary. A sedentary lifestyle works against our natural impulses and causes health issues.

If Humans Evolved from Apes, How Come We Still Have Apes?, transphobia, bigot, racist, and science deniers, are bandied about, cult worshipers, You have a right to your views, but not to the scientific facts

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected seven outstanding faculty from Arizona State University to the newest class of AAAS Fellows, among the most distinct honors within the scientific community.

Sometimes, you can only be honest with strangers. That curious freedom shapes "The Band's Visit," the new Broadway musical about a group of Egyptian musicians who get lost on their way to a concert in Israel. The musical will be at ASU Gammage from Feb. 8–13.

May 07, 2021 02:11 AM EDT (Photo : Dr. Guojie Zhang from the University of Copenhagen) Adapting to Changes (Photo : Pixabay) Adapting to new environments would be crucial for the long-term survival of most ecosystems as climate change tends to raise temperatures, increase drier conditions, and alter precipitation patterns. According to researchers at the University of New Hampshire, more than one genetic pathway allows animals to adapt to survive in colder, desert-like environments and exist wi...

Humans have a higher density of sweat glands found in their skin than chimps and macaques. In fact, they have 10 times that of chimps and macaques. Penn Medicine experts have now learned how this unique, hyper-cooling feature developed in the human genome. (Photo : Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash) Sweating Researchers found that the higher density of sweat glands in humans is due to cumulative improvements in a regulatory area of DNA called an enhancer region that drives the expression of a sweat gl...