Molecular surgery: 'Deleting' a single atom from a molecule

Inserting, removing or swapping individual atoms from the core of a molecule is a long-standing challenge in chemistry. This ...

Skin imaging scan can detect early signs of heart disease

Researchers from Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed "fast-RSOM," a new imaging ...

Four-eyed Cambrian fish fossils hint at origins of vertebrate pineal complex

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, takes a closer look at a structure found in multiple 518 million-year-old ...

This new scan claims to measure how well you're aging — here's what doctors say it can do

OligoScan is popular with influencers and makes some pretty big claims. But here's what you should know.
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This 480,000-year-old elephant bone tool is the oldest ever found outside Africa

Hunter-gatherers in England used a tool fashioned from an elephant bone to sharpen their butchery utensils almost half a million years ago. We don’t know which human species used this proboscidean ...