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[ad_1] Today's ultramarathoners can go back a million years ago. iStock.com/epicurean By Elizabeth PennisiSep. 11, 2018, 7:01 PM Despite our coach potato lifestyles, long-distance running is in our genes. A new study …

[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public Domain Two or three million years ago, the functional loss of a single gene caused a series of significant changes in what would become the modern human species, …

[ad_1] The rock in space, the poison dust, the deadly radiation at zero atmosphere – the moon seems inhospitable until you look at its past. Mars is the obvious first choice for …

[ad_1] A few days after the end of an Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo that left dozens dead and two years after a major epidemic in West Africa that …

[ad_1] West Nile virus was detected in a human in Allegheny County, the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced Friday. If the tests confirm the infection, it will be the first human infection …

[ad_1] In the coming decades, humanity could reach a kind of immortality by merging our minds with machines, according to a prominent futurist It could mean that we live through androids even …

[ad_1] Researchers theorized that a parasite found in cat feces can make humans less prone to fear. (Photo: Linda Raymond, Getty Images / iStockphoto) The bravery needed to start this business could …

[ad_1] Until recently, conventional wisdom was that homo sapiens evolved in the East African rift valley 200,000 years ago, before leaving the continent and populating the rest of the world 60,000 years …

[ad_1] Vegetables eaten by herbivorous dinosaurs 150 million years ago had nutritional value greater than that consumed by humans in the polluted environment of the 21st century. In a recent study, researchers …

[ad_1] Vegetables eaten by herbivorous dinosaurs 150 million years ago had a higher nutritional value than that consumed by humans in the polluted environment of the 21st century. In a recent study, …