The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

Early human migration timeline into South America has stirred debate. Researchers have long argued about when these first ...

When you hop, run or jump, your legs behave like springs, absorbing and returning energy with each step. But what happens to ...

Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.

A new model of brain metabolism – the most complex ever generated –shows how altering key chemicals could restore aged cells ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

It is the first time researchers use data from ... A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans.

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

The study is the first comprehensive examination of the impacts of ocean pollution on human health. It was published in the online edition of the Annals of Global Health and released at the Monaco ...