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A fatal virus has reportedly been discovered in shrews in Alabama, sparking concerns about potential contagion to humans. The Camp Hill virus — thought to be the first "henipavirus" in North ...

The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent between 2016 and 2024, according to a new study Sarah Kuta Daily ...

Will pigs solve the organ crisis? The future of animal-to-human transplants The FDA’s green light will bring the experimental procedure a step closer to one day supplying organs to the thousands ...

Of course they’ve made their way into human tissue, he says. Earlier studies have found them in lungs, intestines, blood, liver and placenta. In the samples collected in 2024, concentrations of ...

A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver and kidneys. Microplastics, plastic particles fewer than 5 millimeters in size, have infiltrated the ...

“I am of the opinion that A.I. can already do all of the jobs that we, as humans, do,” he told Bloomberg News, a view that goes far beyond what most experts claim. According to ...

"The second most-popular, favourite hobby of humans − after watching somebody achieve greatness − is watching them fail. "People love to watch people fail. They just do. I don't know why.

Credit: NPS/Kurt Moses NASA scientists have uncovered significant changes in the global water cycle over the past two decades, largely driven by human activities such as agriculture. Their findings ...

The human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens. Credit: Nadina CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikipedia commons The prehistoric human ...

The auricular muscles helped change the shape of the shell–or pinna–of the ear and helped humans living millions of years ago listen closely. They are still used by roughly 10 to 20 percent of ...