Scientists have identified a tiny genetic change—present in nearly all living humans but absent in our closest extinct ...

I may be in contention for the World’s Most Dismissive Boomer, but I get that record-setting is serious business, writes. So ...

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Jan. 27, 2025 — Various diseases can be treated by stimulating the vagus nerve in the ear with electrical signals. However, this technique does not always work. A study has now shown ...

Chaco Canyon was once the vibrant religious center of a Native American culture whose collapse long remained a mystery—until ...

Most humans have lost the ability to wiggle their ears, but that doesn’t mean their ear muscles have given up. New research suggests that, when we strain to hear in a noisy environment, these muscles ...

A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray. Analyzing a wealth of DNA collected from fossilized human bones, the researchers found that the first Indo-European speakers ...

HPR talked to Randi Rollins, a Ph.D. ecologist, about her work on how rat lungworm disease spreads between rodents, snails, and humans. She shared that on Oʻahu she found rat lungworm everywhere that ...

Research conducted at the University of Saarland in Germany has found that humans also have the ability to move their ears in response to sound. Robert Wiederheim, a German anatomist active in the ...

The authors reasoned that many similarities between the appearance of cartilage under the microscope for zebrafish gills and human ears cannot be just a coincidence. Knowing that both the gills ...