WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Director James Cameron's "Avatar" movies are populated by a species of outsized blue beings resembling humans, except with tails. So why does our species lack a tail, ...

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They’re not monkeying around with this breakthrough. Researchers from New York University Langone Health may have finally learned how early humans took a major step away from predecessor primates in ...

Geneticist Bo Xia asked that question as a child and it was on his mind again a few years ago, while he was recovering from a tailbone injury during his PhD at New York University (NYU) in New York ...

Primates with tails lack a certain DNA insertion that people have. Plus, how artificial intelligence tools are transforming scientific writing and how dwarf galaxies cleared the cosmic fog after the ...

The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...

Forty retailers along Oak Street, Rush Street, Delaware Place and Michigan Avenue lent their storefronts and windows on Sunday, June 1, 2025, to PAWS Chicago for their annual Angels With Tails event.