A new study, published in the journal PLoS Genetics, concludes that these genes are one of the most widespread traces of our ancient ties with the Denisovans, who are believed to have mated with modern humans leaving Africa around 60,000 years ago.
"The potentially long-term environmental harms of deploying tens of thousands of satellites are still unclear."
You generally hear one of two contradictory narratives about weight loss. The first is that your weight is simply the result of how much you eat and how much you exercise, but the second is that some people's bodies pack on weight much more easily than others, making weight loss a much more difficult goal.
Scientists found more than 600 distinct viruses after swabbing peoples' toothbrushes and shower heads — but thankfully, the vast majority of them are more helpful than harmful. Northwestern microbiologist Erica Hartmann, lead author of a new study published this week in Frontiers in Microbiomes, told Gizmodo that she was equal parts shocked and fascinated when discovering that these everyday objects were teeming with bacteria-eating viruses known as bacteriophages.
Need an extra hand? Science may soon have you covered
And it's scheduled to happen sooner than you might think
It isn't enough that Japan already has its iconic bullet train that's the envy of the world. No: it must now construct an entire "conveyor belt road" to embarrass us all.
In what appears to be a major breakthrough in the quest to treat erectile dysfunction, scientists in China have successfully restored normal erections in pigs with injured penises by way of bionic tissue transplant.
A team of researchers may have finally figured out why people are far more likely to get colds and the flu when temperatures drop during the winter.
Exercised your civic duty by voting this week? Bad news: now your personal information is probably online. A data-hoovering website is making it easier than ever to not only find out a person's party affiliation and whether or not they voted, but even to find their address. As 404 Media notes in its reporting on the sketchy data broker, VoteRef, this kind of information has unfortunately always been public in most states.
Are autonomous taxis the way to go? Currently, only if you like demonstrably poorer service for your buck. A new study conducted by Forbes reveals how Waymo, a leader in the robotaxi industry, still lags considerably behind human-driven ridesharing services in two key transportation metrics: time and money.
Scientists around the world have been ringing alarm bells about microplastics, tiny particles now found in pregnant people's bodies, in the deepest reaches of the Earth's oceans and unfortunately, your gut. For years it's been unclear how these tiny pollution particles affect human health, but continued research is starting to zero in on the consequences.
Aspartame, one of the most widely used artificial sweeteners in the world, will be declared as a possible carcinogen by the cancer research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), Reuters reports.
They could control their appetite, friendliness, and even maternal behaviors
"It may seem outdated, but wood is actually cutting-edge technology as civilisation heads to the Moon and Mars."
