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LA wildfires: death toll rises to 24 as winds threaten further destruction A scientist may have just proven that we all live inside a computer simulation Leslie Charleson, ‘General Hospital ...

The nutritional and toxicological considerations related to fish consumption were brought ... given the half-life in humans of methylmercury of about 70 days. Intake limits were set to encompass ...

An international study reveals how early humans, as far back as 1.5 million ... cognitive abilities and technological expertise of our ancestors. At the Melka Wakena site in the Ethiopian ...

Since the cartilage and tissues of its body couldn’t fossilize, scientists have only been able to estimate what the rest looked like. For generations, they’ve referenced other Devonian fish species ...

Scientists in Antarctica announced on Thursday, Jan. 9, that they have extracted what is believed to be the world’s oldest ice. The team from Europe drilled nearly two miles to obtain the ancient ice, ...

The research has revealed that hominins—a group containing modern humans plus our closest extinct ancestors and relatives—who once lived in what is now Israel likely consumed a wide range of ...

and other plastics are ending up in the fish people eat, according to new research conducted by Portland State University (PSU). The study highlights the need for strategies and technologies to curb ...

In addition, the content and accumulation level of heavy metals in benthic organisms was significantly higher than that in fish. Human health risk assessments showed that the heavy metal posed a ...

SINGAPORE – The bird, barely the size of a human palm, struggled in the mesh net hanging between two wooden poles on Pulau Ubin, the biodiversity haven located off Singapore’s eastern coast.

The idea of life continuing on Earth without humans has a way of catching our attention. Our species has spread across land and sea, altering the planet in countless ways. Still, Earth’s history shows ...