In March 1970, neurosurgeon Dr. Robert J. White performed the first cephalic transplant on two rhesus monkeys. Jenna El-Attar/ Guest Artist The scene is like any ordinary operating room. The ...

David Fickling Books was founded in 1999 and became an independent publishing house in 2013 after first being part of Scholastic and later Random House. They have published several prize-winning ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Introduction: Decompressive surgery is considered a practical option for patients with progressive degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM), nearly 40% of patients with moderate and severe DCM report ...

Dr. Bergland is a professor at Simmons University. Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was ...

After Longlegs last year, Osgood or Oz Perkins returns with another film where blood and splatter are the entire story — the sentence, comma, full stop, colon (often literally) and, should you be so ...

Humanoid robots will compete against humans in a half-marathon in Beijing. The event aims to showcase advancements in humanoid robotics and AI. Robots must be humanoid without wheels; both remote ...

Last time out, we pitted our special guest - jazz musician Emma-Jean Thackray - against an AI to see who could most accurately predict the results of Premier League matchday 27. Emma-Jean correctly ...

Eleanor Raffan receives funding from the Wellcome Trust, Royal Society, Dogs Trust and Morris Animal Foundation. Pippa flops by the Aga oven chewing on a stick. At just 12 weeks old, this labrador ...

A US team of researchers has uncovered 27 bone tools made by human ancestors about 1.5 million years ago. While older bone tools have been discovered, similar examples of bone tool kits occur ...

Dogs at high genetic risk of obesity showed signs of having higher appetite, as has also been shown for people at high genetic risk of obesity.

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old. By Carl Zimmer Humans, unlike most other species, have a knack for making tools.