What makes heatwaves deadly? How much heat can the human body endure? When does heatstroke happen? Here, we explain: ...

Humans are overwhelmingly right-handed, but scientists have long struggled to explain why no other primate species shows ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Over time, humans lost the vocal membranes and air sacs found in monkeys and apes and developed a more stable voice box.

A long-standing goal of neuroscience is to understand how molecules and cellular structures on a microscale give rise to communication between brain regions at the macroscale. "A central goal of ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

A newly discovered genetic mutation unique to humans may help explain why we are significantly more vulnerable to cancer than our closest evolutionary relatives. Researchers at the University of ...