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Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has found ways to plant memories in mice. Here's what that could mean for humans.

Keep that in your back pocket for the next time someone tells you that you’re too sensitive – you can’t help it.

Although often glossed over, the human liver is a pretty amazing organ. Not just because it’s pretty much the sole thing that prevents our food from killing us, but also because it’s the only organ in ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. If the trial is successful, the ...

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the Moon and worships gods? For decades, many scholars have argued that the difference stems ...

Imagine watching Earth rise from your home at Mars Base Alpha, a place bustling with mining robots, research pods, and cargo landers. Together they are building the next human neighborhood 140 million ...

Now we are edging closer to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) — where AI is smarter than humans across multiple disciplines and can reason generally — which scientists and experts ...

A kiss may be on your list as one of the best things in life. But have you ever thought about how kissing evolved in the first place into such a meaningful activity for humans? After all, even though ...

Learn how ancient pottery covered in flowers may be humanity’s first attempts at mathematical thinking.