"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason Hodgson.

Light helps explains the evolution of our skin color, why some of us have curly hair, and the size of our eyes. And light ...

From how your eyes look when you talk to him to the way your curves move when you walk, these traits are captivating ...

We have trillions of body clocks — a central one in the brain and others in each cell of our body. Here's how they work with ...

The brain often blurs the senses – a fact that marketers often use in the design of food packaging. And AIs appear to do the ...

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...

"Paradoxically, the future might involve a high degree of automation to achieve a more authentically human journalism." ...

The remarkable thing about days getting shorter is that this celestial process is time immemorial. Year after year and millennia after millennia, days get shorter beginning in summer until the winter ...

In essence, Leslie says all of us are being “microdosed” with microplastics around the clock, so there’s no way to ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco and Cedars-Sinai have developed a new way to prompt stem cells to form specific organs. It sets the stage for growing human organs from scratch – a long-time goal of ...

Researchers have uncovered strange and unprecedented entities living within the human body, entities they have named ...

Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have generated human stem cell models which, for the first time, contain notochord—a tissue in the developing embryo that acts like a navigation system, ...