Last week, the Washington Post sparked a media kerfuffle when it reported that talk-show-host-turned-defense secretary Peter ...

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Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

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A personalised vaccine for the aggressive and fatal brain cancer glioblastoma has shown encouraging signs of efficacy in its first human trial. The vaccine – developed by researchers at the ...

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