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 ...

Humans, it turns out, possess much higher metabolic rates than other mammals, including our close relatives, apes and chimpanzees, finds a Harvard study. Having both high resting and active metabolism ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

Madeline Lancaster created the first brain organoids, which have revolutionised our understanding of how the brain works - ...

It is time, once again, for our science news roundup from Short Wave. That is NPR's science podcast. Reporting this time, Regina Barber and Rachel Carlson. Welcome, you two. RACHEL CARLSON, BYLINE: ...

In a new study, a team of biologists found that participants' breathing patterns were so unique that they could identify them with almost perfect accuracy. But not only that; the study also showed ...

Large rock-face murals scattered across the desert in northern Saudi Arabia represent one of the most ambitious – and ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...