The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It ...

As artificial intelligence is pitted against the brain, Jim Al-Khalili, broadcaster and professor of theoretical physics, ...

After spending more than four months studying the evolution of the brain, Jim Al-Khalili has never been so sure of its ...

We are living in an era of “discoveries that feel at once wondrous, improbable, and surreal,” writes Mary Roach in her new book.

Researchers used AlphaFold3, the latest AI-based protein modeling system, to predict the structures of all 25 known human ...

Very preterm infants who received more skin-to-skin contact during their hospital stay showed stronger development in brain ...

The findings suggest Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over 1 million years ago, much earlier than previously believed.

That the human mind treads a delicate line between order and disorder is a radical idea that’s gaining traction - and is ...

A new study examines the evolutionary connection between the fine manipulation of objects and the associated development of ...

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in ...

Taste receptors are specialized proteins that facilitate the sense of taste. There are different groups of receptors for ...