Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

Human biology is the study of all aspects of the human organism including evolution, genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, development, anthropology, and nutrition, among others. A deep ...

Human factors (also referred to as human factors psychology and human factors engineering) is an applied field of study that examines human abilities, limitations, behaviors, and processes in order to ...

The human brain is turning out to be much more complicated than scientists could have ever imagined (Credit: Mareen Fischinger/Forschungszentrum Jülich) Human brains are bigger than those of our ...

University of Manchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The average body contains about 37 trillion cells – and we are in the midst of a revolutionary quest to understand what ...

Artificial intelligence has come a long way since Alan Turing first speculated about the concept of the "thinking machine" in 1950, but there's still a significant gap between the popular conception ...

In an age where technology is quickly advancing, we are consistently told that it’s supposed to improve the way we communicate with one another. I don’t entirely agree. Technology only exists because ...

Christopher Henshilwood (in Blombos Cave) dug at one of the most important early human sites partly out of proximity—it’s on his grandfather’s property. Centre for Development Studies, University of ...

Braving a funding ban put in place by America’s top health agency, some U.S. research centers are moving ahead with attempts to grow human tissue inside pigs and sheep with the goal of creating hearts ...

You may think your body and mind are your own. In fact, you are a fusion of many organisms - including, potentially, another person. Words by David Robson, photography by Ariko Inaoka. This story is ...

Human composting is the practice of breaking down human remains into fertile soil. The green burial movement, which is at the forefront of human composting, is an initiative dedicated to offering more ...