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Early humans in the Philippines 700,000 years ago – study
Until now, the earliest confirmed evidence of hominins – the scientific term used to group modern and early humans – in the Philippines came from a single, 67,000-year old foot bone unearthed in the Sierra Madre Mountains

Mice experiments show how Zika invades placenta, fetus
The studies illustrate how the virus could invade the brain of a developing fetus and trigger complications

Earth has a secret reservoir of water –scientists
An elusive mineral points to the existence of a vast reservoir of water underneath the Earth s crust holding as much water as all the ocean s combined
Stem cell scientist calls for retraction of study
The study faced hard questions as the Japanese research institute that sponsored the study probed into the credibility of the study data
The incredible lightness of being... an electron
Scientists in Germany say they had made the most precise measurement yet of the mass of the electron
Neanderthal genome helped early humans survive cold – research
It may also have transferred a genetically higher risk for diabetes and lupus
Transplant tissue: Stem cells in 'revolutionary' boost
The new approach – provided it overcomes safety hurdles – could smash cost and technical barriers in stem cell research said independent commentators