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14-face die made of animal tooth and 21 rectangular pieces were part of a game that has not been played in 1,500 years

DNA from Denisovans suggests they lived in Siberia for millennia and were more genetically diverse than Neandertals, but less diverse than modern humans

The remains of an Incan boy, about 6 or 7 years old and sacrificed to the gods more than 500 years ago, belonged to a previously unknown offshoot of an ancient Native American lineage, new research finds

Researches are developing a thermal-imaging system based on ultrathin sheets of carbon atoms

Marine biologists weigh in on the pros and cons of killer whales in captivity

Physicists use particle accelerators to find differences between antimatter and matter, which could offer insight into why matter dominates the universe

A parasite with cancer infected a man, and the tumor cells jumped across the species line

British biophysicist Alan Lloyd Hodgkin won the shiny gold medal in 1963 for discovering how the nerve cells of squid generate an electrical pulse when stimulated

It’s kind of like walking straight into an electric fence, or getting shot with a stun gun, according to a biologist studying the phenomenon

The device relies on a precisely timed sequence of sound waves that create a region of low pressure that traps tiny objects, which can then be manipulated solely by sound waves

Advertisements in two top-selling parenting magazines ads contain photographs or describe products that conflict with the health and safety recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics

MUSICA is part of a new DARPA program to explore new ways that people can interact with computers and robots

This winter is likely to be wetter and warmer than average, thanks to a strong El Niño brewing in the Pacific Ocean

Nasty superbug MRSA hits Daniel Fells following a cortisone shot to relieve pain from toe and ankle injuries

Patients should be monitored for elevated risk of self-harm after weight loss procedure, researchers say

Homo naledi’s hands and feet could reveal answers about a key shift in human evolution—the move from a life of climbing trees to one spent walking on the ground

Hiding out in what is now New Mexico, beaver-like animal used specialized dentition to live on plants

Once thought of as a lush alien world teeming with life and later dismissed as an arid, desolate orb, the Red Planet’s salty, liquid water just might aid in the search for extraterrestrial life

Officials say the new cases are not related to the city’s summertime Legionnaires outbreak, the largest in the city’s history, which sickened 120 people in the South Bronx

The discovery may be evidence of the oldest known case of ritual beheading in the New World

In an off-the-cuff remark to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the former National Security Agency contractor suggested E.T. might send encrypted messages that humans mistake for noise

Tricycle accidents requiring a visit to the emergency room peak when children reach age 2, a new study finds

The large piece of wing could offer up clues for authorities hoping to locate the rest of the airplane and determine what happened to the ill-fated aircraft

Consequences of global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst-case scenarios predicted by the dominant climate models