Can a monkey, a pigeon or a fish reason like a person? It's a question scientists have been testing in increasingly creative ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

Here’s what muscle fibres, motor control, and a bit of adrenaline say about our place in the strength hierarchy ...

Female chimps are often the ones who leave their birth group. That means most do not live near their mothers or sisters.

Binary polymorphisms associated with the non-recombining region of the human Y chromosome (NRY) preserve the paternal genetic legacy of our species that has persisted to the present, permitting ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...

Human artificial chromosomes (HACs) represent a novel promising episomal system for functional genomics, gene therapy, and synthetic biology. HACs are engineered from natural and synthetic alphoid DNA ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our ...