A recent analysis of fossils recovered in the 1990s in the village of Nikiti in northern Greece supports the controversial theory that apes, the ancestors of humans, evolved in Southeastern Europe ...

A new variant of human mpox has claimed the lives of approximately 5% of people with reported infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2023, many of them children. Since then, it has ...

Other than a tuft of dark hair on its head, the infant ape is mostly hairless. The baby will cling to its mom, Hutan, for three or four months, and a long and dense coat will begin growing in ...

Apply a cool, damp washcloth to itchy skin. To do this, run a clean washcloth under cool tap water. Then wring out the excess water. Apply the washcloth to the itchy area, leaving it on your skin for ...

In August, the World Health Organization declared mpox a global health emergency amid a rapidly growing outbreak in central Africa and the emergence of a new, more severe subtype of the virus.

Dr Jonas Albarnaz, who specialises in pox viruses at the Pirbright Institute, said the first case outside of Africa was concerning as it meant the spread “might be larger than we knew yesterday”.

APES is a suite of software tools for simulations on large-scale parallel computing systems. Aside from the solvers the suite provides a dedicated mesh-generation and respective post-processing into ...

Great apes deliberately spin themselves around to make themselves dizzy, researchers have said. The behaviour could provide clues as to why humans had evolved the desire to seek altered mental ...

Univalent varicella or MMRV vaccine is recommended for routine immunization of healthy children aged 12 months to less than 13 years of age. Univalent varicella vaccine is recommended for susceptible ...