The natural world has undergone an almost unimaginable regime change, reflecting the vast and growing dominance of humanity on our planet’s most important resource: freshwater. Researchers say this is the first global survey of human effects on the water cycle. Scientists have used NASA’s satellite measurements to remotely measure the …
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The question of whether the Tou-million-year-old primate, nicknamed ‘Toumai’, walked on two-four legs has sparked drama among paleontologists – with a perishable woman. Since the discovery of Sahalenthropus tecdensis The first relic, dating back to 2001, has always been cited as our ancient known hominin ancestor. Preliminary analysis suggests that …
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Neanderthals may have lost Homo sapiens In the evolutionary battle for survival, but over time we are learning more and more about similarities between species – and according to new research, which extends to the upbringing of children. A new study using geochemical and histological techniques to look at three …
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About 600,000 years ago, humanity split into two. One group stayed in Africa, grew into ours. Others formed in Asia, then in Europe, and went underground Homo neanderthalnsis – Neanderthals. They were not our ancestors, but a sister species, growing in parallel. Neanderthals fascinate us because of what they tell …
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U.S. As humans prepare to return to the moon in this decade, the biggest risk to astronauts in the future is space radiation that can cause lasting health effects ranging from cataracts to cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Although Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s proved that it was safe …
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