Synaptic plasticity allows brains to learn, adapt, and rewire. It’s foundational to memory, problem-solving, and complex ...

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

New UChicago Divinity School course uses religious texts and popular sci-fi to shed light on what it means to be human ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

Commercial airliners spend most of their working lives in parts of the atmosphere that the human body cannot tolerate for ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

Knowable Magazine reports 2025 faced turmoil in U.S. science amid job cuts and budget slashes, yet saw advances in gene ...

Going by his words, understanding the human brain is far more complex than comprehending the entire solar system. Veteran ...