Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

Consciousness should not be deemed as an ‘all-or-nothing’ cognitive function but rather as a graded and multi-dimensional ...

Couples do a lot of weird things: dressing alike, having inside jokes, and even letting their natural body functions fly when ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...

As amazing as the human body is, it’s unfortunately not as amazing as e.g. axolotl bodies are, in the sense that they can ...

Scientists developed nanoflowers from molybdenum disulfide, designed with microscopic pores that act like sponges to absorb ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of ...

To function as a human being in this complicated world, sometimes, you need a good cry. And there's no better way to let the ...

Fever slows seasonal flu by blocking viral replication, but bird-flu strains resist heat. New research reveals why—and what ...

Monkeys have been test subjects for infectious diseases for decades. However, that will soon come to an end, according to the ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.