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 ...

Human beings are animals, evolved from ancestral great apes. We are part of nature and yet unique in many ways. It was once thought that humans were the only animals with culture: the learned rather ...

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 to our closest relatives. Our ...

Regina Barber and Rachel Carlson of Short Wave talk about humans' unique breathing patterns, how a hotter planet worsens droughts, and the diets of dinosaurs. It is time, once again, for our science ...

Rogier Mars receives funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) UK and the Medical Research Council (MRC) UK. Katherine Bryant does not work for, consult, own ...