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In the thin air of Nepal’s highlands, scientists are witnessing humans evolving in real time as they adapt to one of Earth’s harshest environments.

Above 3,500 meters (around 11,500 feet), oxygen levels drop significantly. Most…

A new study in Science suggests that changes in a gene in Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, could’ve added to the length of two plague pandemics, including the pandemic that started with the “Black Death.”

“Ours is one of…

We’ve all seen the adverts. ‘This one, simple trick will blitz the blubber around your belly’; ‘Turn your body into a furnace and burn off your spare tyre with this diet hack’; ‘Get Adonis abs by doing this five-minute workout’. But…