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After years of work, an international team of scientists have detected a sign of a major life event that may have only occurred three times before in the last billion years. They’ve observed two lifeforms merging into one organism.

The bioengineered immune players called CAR T cells last longer and work better if pumped up with a large dose of a protein that makes them resemble stem cells.

How humans, animals and even single-celled organisms cooperate to survive suggests there’s more to life than just competition, argues a cheering study of evolutionary biology.

Fifty years after her discovery, the 3.2-million-year-old fossil still reigns as mother of us all. But she now has rivals

A failing memory can be frustrating, but it may be a sign your brain is working exactly as it should

Black holes are weird already, but it turns out that the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy is a particularly weird one

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A study of more than 100 new parents showed that pregnancy and birth cause changes in brain circuits that may be involved in empathy and bonding with the child

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed deep inequalities between rich and poor countries. The WHO Pandemic Agreement hopes to improve global equity and avoid mistakes made during COVID-19.