WEHI researchers have made a huge leap forward in the fight against Parkinson's disease, solving a decades-long mystery that paves the way for development of new drugs to treat the condition.

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Microplastics have been found in human blood, semen, breast milk, placental tissue and bone marrow, but their presence in the ...

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Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed Lapedo Child remains shows that remains of a child with both human and ...

The government agency responsible for overseeing carbon credits continues to reject the science around human-induced regeneration and carbon storage.

A pair of University of Houston professors and experts in crystallization have captured the first-ever real-time images of ...

Touch releases oxytocin, the bonding hormone, which naturally increases feelings of closeness and affection. Of course, this ...