Hypertension (high blood pressure) is a debilitating condition and a major cause of premature death worldwide. Chronic stress plays a significant role, but the underlying mechanism involving ...

Researchers examine evidence of manipulation of human remains from Maszycka Cave. An international research team, including ...

A real primordial black hole would be much smaller than this (close to an atom). Image generated by AI. Imagine a ...

Being on one's feet for an extended time also can lead to chronic venous insufficiency, a disease in which damaged veins ...

Researchers identify a new player in human immunity that can go rogue and turn the immune system against the body’s own ...

Your body produces it when your skin is in the sun or when you eat vitamin-D-rich foods. It can be hard to notice a vitamin D deficiency because it sometimes yields no symptoms. One study found ...

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"A world in which human wages crash from AI — logically, necessarily — is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero ...

And both uphill and downhill training can improve your proprioception — or your sense of where your body is in space — which can reduce your risk of falls. Start by charging uphill while ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...

“If you think about what we might expect humans to accomplish in an area like biology in 100 years, I think a doubling of the human lifespan is not at all crazy,” he said yesterday (Jan ...