A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that individual cells in the human ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the remarkable remains continue to yield theories and questions. In a ...

Human behavior is an enigma that fascinates many scientists. And there has been much discussion over the role of probability in explaining how our minds work. Probability is a mathematical framework ...

A viral video of a young gorilla bursting into laughter-like sounds while being gently tickled by a familiar human caretaker ...

Why is human culture - the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations - so much more powerful than animal cultures? "What's special about our species?" is a question scientists have ...

Imagine a world where the keys to every door were left under a proverbially convenient doormat. It's an open invitation to chaos, though the "finders-keepers" of the cyber world would describe it as ...

Some 4,000 years ago, as ancient civilizations such as the Minoans in Crete and the Neo-Sumerian Empire in Mesopotamia were shaping cultures in Europe and the Middle East, human biology itself was ...