The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the ...

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and ...

Hibernation is an intricate process where an animal’s body shuts down almost completely in the winter and reactivates in the ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold ...

(d) “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. (e) “Male” means ...

The museum’s 2025 season, Mind and Body: The Art and Science of Being Human, will also unveil two brand-new exhibitions: ...

An adult human body consists of some 37 trillion cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types.

I’ve just finished going through the audiobook version of The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu and Joel Martinsen). If you like hard science-fiction, I recommend it, ...

5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological ... during which a body was thrown into a well at Sverresborg ...

Making Artificial Intelligence systems robustly perceive humans remains one of the most intricate challenges in computer ...

Israeli researchers have developed a new method to map all the proteins secreted by the human body, revealing insights into health and disease, the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) said in a ...