Until now, there's been little evidence our evolutionary relatives could swim.

Housing Stability Evaluation Incubator will provide funding and technical assistance to help partners build evidence on strategies to reduce and prevent homelessness.

Study shows no effect from program intended to reduce repeated hospitalizations by targeting high-cost patients.

Dating sediment from a cave in Java leads scientists to conclude that ancient humans and Homo erectus didn't meet.

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An ancient ancestor of modern humans survived into relatively recent times in South-East Asia.

In a new book, Amy Moran-Thomas examines how diabetes is reaching epidemic levels in countries across the world.

MIT economists analyze how patients and health care providers value Medicaid.

Scientists calculate the lifespans of long-lost species, including ancient human relatives.

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