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Marriage in Minoan Crete

New archaeogenetic data allow exciting insights into the social order of the Aegean Bronze Age

New Study Questions The Efficacy Of Many Osteoarthritis Treatments

Recruiting osteoarthritis patients with a lot of pain to clinical studies, may give incorrect results if the researcher does account for the natural variation in pain that occurs.

Dinosaurs Were The First To Take The Perspectives Of Others

Understanding that others hold different viewpoints from your own is essential for human sociality. Adopting another person’s visual perspective is a complex skill that emerges around the age of two.

Microorganisms' Climate Adaptation Can Slow Down Global Warming

A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the ability of microorganisms to adapt to climate warming will slow down global warming by storing carbon in soil.

Cocktail Of Modified Antibodies Provides Strong Effect Against SARS-Cov-2

Is it possible to improve the antibodies that the body produces to fight SARS-CoV2?

Revealed: Molecular “Superpower” Of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

A species of ordinary gut bacteria that we all carry flourishes when the intestinal flora is knocked out by a course of antibiotics.

Ice Age Survivors

Large-scale genomic analysis documents the migrations of Ice Age hunter-gatherers over a period of 30,000 years – they took shelter in Western Europe but died out on the Italian peninsula

Huge Study Unveils The Consumption Of Drugs By Danes

MEDICATION Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Statistics Denmark have analysed more than one billion prescriptions issued by general practitioners. In the long term, the analysis may help to optimise prescription trajectories, but there are still many things we do not know about the associations between diseases and treatment patterns, explains Professor Søren Brunak who has been in charge of the study.

Beethoven’s Genome

Scientists have sequenced the composer’s genome using five genetically matching hair locks

Bacteria Are Vital For The Diversity And Survival Of Insects

Insects heavily rely on bacteria for essential nutrients that are lacking in their diet.

New Discoveries About Where Atherosclerotic Plaques Rupture Can Lead To Preventive Treatments

A common cause of myocardial infarction and stroke is the rupture of atherosclerotic plaques

Ancient DNA Reveals the Multiethnic Structure of Mongolia’s First Nomadic Empire

The Xiongnu dominated the Eurasian steppes two millennia ago and foreshadowed the rise of the Mongol Empire

Reviving Stone Age Molecules

Scientists are rebuilding microbial natural products up to 100,000 years old using dental calculus of humans and Neanderthals

Chimpanzees Can Navigate Virtual Environments

In search of virtual fruit, chimpanzees used landscape features for better orientation

Curious Children, Less Curious Apes

Children choose a “mystery box” more often than apes, but after a glimpse of a larger reward from the uncertain option, great apes show more curiosity

Modern Humans Developed a More Effective Protection Against Oxidative Stress

Neanderthal variant of the protein glutathione reductase increases risk for inflammatory bowel disease and vascular disease

Covid-19 Genetic Risk Variant Protects Against HIV

A Covid-19 risk variant inherited from Neandertals reduces a person’s risk of contracting HIV by 27 percent