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How the battle against measles varies around the world

Measles is a global health threat. Snapshots of several countries show how stopping its spread depends on local conditions and beliefs.

By Sujata Gupta | 6:00am, May 21, 2019

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Ancestry

News | Ancestry

Ancient DNA suggests people settled South America in at least 3 waves

By Tina Hesman Saey | 9:00am, November 09, 2018

News in Brief | Ancestry

Meet the first known child of a Neandertal and a Denisovan

By Tina Hesman Saey | 1:00pm, August 22, 2018

News | Ancestry

The ‘language gene’ didn’t give humans a big leg up in evolution

By Tina Hesman Saey | 7:00am, August 03, 2018
Anthropology

News | Anthropology

Fossil teeth push the human-Neandertal split back to about 1 million years ago

By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, May 15, 2019

News | Anthropology

A jawbone shows Denisovans lived on the Tibetan Plateau long before humans

By Bruce Bower | 1:00pm, May 01, 2019

Reviews & Previews | Anthropology

‘Cities’ reveals common ground between ancient and modern urban life

By Bruce Bower | 5:00am, April 16, 2019
Archaeology

News in Brief | Archaeology

Ancient South American populations dipped due to an erratic climate

By Bruce Bower | 1:17pm, May 09, 2019

News in Brief | Archaeology

An ancient pouch reveals the hallucinogen stash of an Andes shaman

By Bruce Bower | 3:00pm, May 06, 2019

News in Brief | Archaeology

Excavations show hunter-gatherers lived in the Amazon more than 10,000 years ago

By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, April 24, 2019
History of Science

Context | History of Science

These are the top 10 landmarks in the history of making measurements

By Tom Siegfried | 9:00am, May 20, 2019

Reviews & Previews | History of Science

‘An Elegant Defense’ explores the immune system’s softer side

By Cassandra Willyard | 8:00am, April 23, 2019

Context | History of Science

Black hole image validates imagining the unimaginable

By Tom Siegfried | 6:00am, April 12, 2019
Human Evolution

News | Human Evolution

A new hominid species has been found in a Philippine cave, fossils suggest

By Bruce Bower | 1:00pm, April 10, 2019

News | Human Evolution

The first known fossil of a Denisovan skull has been found in a Siberian cave

By Bruce Bower | 11:01am, March 29, 2019

News | Human Evolution

The rise of farming altered our bite and changed how people talk

By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, March 14, 2019
Language

News | Language

Artificial intelligence is learning not to be so literal

By Maria Temming | 6:00am, February 05, 2019

News | Language

Here’s what makes satire so funny, according to science

By Maria Temming | 2:39pm, February 01, 2019

News | Language

Huge ‘word gap’ holding back low-income children may not exist after all

By Bruce Bower | 5:30am, September 04, 2018
Networks

The List | Networks

Ask AI: How not to kill online conversations

By Maria Temming | 9:00am, January 03, 2018

The Science Life | Networks

Balloons will broadcast the 2017 solar eclipse live from on high

By Lisa Grossman | 1:30pm, July 26, 2017

Feature | Networks

Big biological datasets map life's networks

By Laurel Hamers | 10:00am, October 19, 2016
Psychology

News | Psychology

Bad moods could be contagious among ravens

By Carolyn Wilke | 5:37pm, May 20, 2019

News | Psychology

Why war’s emotional wounds run deeper for some kids and not others

By Bruce Bower | 8:00am, April 28, 2019

Feature | Psychology

When anxiety happens as early as preschool, treatments can help

By Sujata Gupta | 6:00am, April 21, 2019
Science & Society

News | Science & Society

1 million species are under threat. Here are 5 ways we speed up extinctions

By Carolyn Gramling | 6:00am, May 08, 2019

News | Science & Society

Medical student evaluations appear riddled with racial and gender biases

By Bethany Brookshire | 7:00am, May 06, 2019

News | Science & Society

Facebook data show how many people left Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

By Sujata Gupta | 7:00am, May 03, 2019

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