Hello readers. For all the talk of artificial intelligence, the most efficient computer on Earth remains the human brain. It can perform the same number of operations per second as the world’s ...

The community of microbes that live in the gut, known as the gut microbiome, may have fueled the evolution of humans' huge ...

This wave of growth was followed by another thinning ... confounding the long-held notion that the adult human brain cannot grow. But the bonus in brain tissue may not have come free of charge.

But it might also put us at risk for uniquely human brain disorders. The study appears in Nature. The research focused on parts of chromosomes known as human accelerated regions (HARs), which have ...

The human brain is up to three times larger in volume ... how neural activity during development influences growth; and how parts of the brain other than the cortex might have changed to endow ...

Attempts to transplant human brain organoids into young mice and rats have ... She adds that because the organoids are being added to mature brain tissue, the growth factors that would normally ...

New research on Australopithecus tooth enamel reveals early humans primarily consumed plants, challenging the idea of regular meat consumption. The di ...