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Eradicated in the 1970s, a flesh-eating parasite has just turned up in a Texas calf — and cattle officials are alarmed

by Carlos Albero Rojas

Colorado became the unlikely capital of America’s fastest-growing outdoor sport and nobody saw it coming

Six shipwrecks from the real Golden Age of Piracy have been found off Nassau — and the evidence of what pirates did to their victims is still visible

Archaeologists who mapped life aboard the ISS are now turning their lens on Everest’s forgotten artifacts

Human Science

Explore the Human Science section of The Pulse for insights into human biology, behavior and adaptation in a changing world.

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Human Science

Geneticists analyzed the world’s oldest woman and found her body was decades younger than her age, with clues hidden in her DNA and a food she ate three times a day

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Vivid dreams get the blame for morning exhaustion, but sleep researchers say the real cause is something most people overlook

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Human Science

One part of the brain keeps listening, parsing language, and predicting words as if their owners were fully awake

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Human Science

Zoos on three continents are quietly racing to bring a ghost bird back to a Mexican island it hasn’t seen in 50 years

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A single soccer header releases brain-damage proteins into the bloodstream, and scientists are only beginning to understand what that means

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Human Science

Inside a 250-million-year-old rock, a curled-up skeleton reveals that our ancestors laid eggs

18. INTERNAL Ancient DNA from a forgotten colonial cemetery just connected 1.3 million living Americans to Maryland s earliest settlers

Human Science

Ancient DNA from a forgotten colonial cemetery just connected 1.3 million living Americans to Maryland’s earliest settlers

Earth

Human Science

Scientists put a number on how many people Earth can actually support and it’s far fewer than we thought

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Human Science

An 11,000-year-old village in Canada is rewriting what we thought we knew about the first North Americans

Monkey

Human Science

Apes and monkeys never developed it, but 9 in 10 humans share a strange bias that scientists just traced to a single ancient shift in our bodies

Archaeologists

Human Science

Archaeologists digging into a remote Siberian burial ground just pulled out Scythian treasures that no one expected to find there

crannogs

Human Science

Researchers just found a 5,000-year-old artificial island in Scotland that rewrites the entire history of crannogs

COVID

Human Science

Doctors in Bangkok watched a baby’s brown eyes slowly turn indigo during COVID treatment and had no immediate explanation

People here reach 110 years of age

Human Science

Scientists want to turn an entire country into a living study after discovering a curious reason its people keep reaching 110

Leonardo Da Vinci

Human Science

Living descendants of Leonardo da Vinci share DNA markers stretching back to the Renaissance — and a family tomb may hold the final piece

Vacation, airplane on runway

Human Science

Researchers found that the right kind of vacation might actually slow down how fast your body ages

Human brain detects Earth's magnetic field

Human Science

Scientists were studying the human brain until they detected signals no one had ever seen and realized it may be linked to Earth’s magnetic field

Heart attack

Human Science

Irregular bedtimes in your 40s linked to double the risk of heart attack a decade later, Finnish study finds

Pyrenees

Human Science

At 2,235 meters in the Pyrenees, a cave holds 4,000 years of secrets archaeologists never expected to find

Human DNA reveals new health threats

Human Science

Researchers looked into human DNA and found evolution moving faster than expected, raising new fears about mutations we may not be able to control

Sixth sense hidden inside our bodies

Human Science

Scientists searched for 120 years to map the sixth sense until organisms in the human stomach began pointing them toward a surprising answer

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Human Science

Frozen to near absolute zero, a phosphoric acid molecule pair reveals the single structure behind nature’s “proton highway”

Aging cells

Human Science

Scientists found an enzyme that clears “junk” RNA from aging cells — and it extended lifespan in lab organisms

Human Science

Your brain builds reality before your eyes even report it — and a cognitive philosopher explains why that changes everything we know about the mind

Phone checking

Human Science

Psychology suggests the reason you check your phone even when nothing is there isn’t about boredom, but it’s because your brain is expecting something that almost never actually comes

menopause

Human Science

Psychology says the emotional changes during menopause aren’t just hormonal — they often reflect a deeper shift in identity, control, and how women relate to themselves

New type of camera to perceive more color

Human Science

Scientists have built a camera that can ‘translate’ colors so you can see the world as animals do

Grew up in the 90s

Human Science

I grew up in the 90s and the thing nobody talks about is that we weren’t just raised in a different time — we were raised by people who were still shaped by instability, and that quiet tension followed us into adulthood

Socially active after 60

Human Science

Psychology says staying socially active after 60 may matter more for your brain than diet or exercise — and many people underestimate how quickly isolation can affect memory and thinking

Human evolution driven by AI technology

Human Science

A new human sense may not come from evolution at all, but from engineers already creating it

Psychology grandchildren

Human Science

Psychology says spending time with your grandchildren might be doing more for your brain than puzzles or memory games — and the effect is stronger than most people realize

Study explains cholera lethality

Human Science

Scientists spent 20 years chasing a cholera mystery until they discovered bacteria can choose between survival and becoming more lethal

Hidden "army" inside human body detected

Human Science

Scientists discovered a hidden “army” inside the human body that stays ready at all times but exists in only half of the population

Origin of life explained by science

Human Science

Experts investigating the origin of life believe we may be the result of a rare ‘chemical lottery’

Hidden switches discovered in DNA

Human Science

Experts have discovered hidden ‘switches’ in our DNA that may accelerate evolution and could explain what makes humans unique

Eyes

Human Science

Our eyes may trace back to a single “cyclops” eye that sat atop an ancient worm’s head 600 million years ago

Keratin

Human Science

Keratin, the protein behind hair and nails, turns out to have a hidden role in controlling skin inflammation

DNA 'age counter' discovered by study

Human Science

Scientists have discovered an ‘age counter’ in our DNA and now believe our aging process may have been miscalculated from the start

Lottery odds miscalculated by brains

Human Science

Neuroscientists studying the lottery have found the brain processes winning differently, which may explain why people keep buying tickets every week

Calorie-burning switch found in cells

Human Science

Scientists have discovered a calorie-burning switch in our bodies hidden within the outer layer of fat cells

Ape fossil found in Egypt

Human Science

Archaeologists have found an ape fossil in Egypt and now believe we’ve been searching for our common ancestor in the wrong place all along

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Human Science

A Virginia teen cut down what looked like an ordinary bush but unexpectedly his face started peeling in the shower

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Two men walking their dog discovered strange human footprints experts dated to year 0 before they suddenly vanished

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Neanderthals in a Siberian cave lived 10,000 years apart and their genomes reveal a species splintering into isolated fragments

DNA winter

Human Science

A small part of your DNA could explain why winter feels completely different for some people

Forgotten teeth found in Ethiopia

Human Science

A paleoanthropologist found a set of strange “forgotten” teeth — Then realized they don’t belong to any known human species

Our cells have sleeping alarm systems

Human Science

Inside every human cell, there’s a ‘sleeping’ alarm system: Scientists now know what wakes it up

Closing eyes

Human Science

Closing your eyes to concentrate feels natural but research shows your brain may work harder and less effectively

DNA, neanderthal rock paintings

Human Science

How your body handled this flu season may reveal if you carry Neanderthal DNA, scientists say

Representative image of telepathy

Human Science

Scientists thought telepathy was impossible until a breakthrough experiment showed thoughts can be transmitted without speaking

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