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Jane Goodall died Wednesday. As she was universally regarded as the greatest living expert on chimpanzees, her passing is a momentous event. It’s one that comes at a time of upheaval in the field she ...

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GREENWICH — The human remains found at a construction site in northern Greenwich last week are “of a historic nature,” the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said Friday. The medical ...

Police in northern Kentucky have provided an update after human remains were found behind a grocery store in Bellevue Wednesday. According to a statement from Bellevue Chief of Police Jon McClain, ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to prosthetic limbs, ...