Human brain is actually two separate organs, scientists find - The Stanford University breakthrough stands to open new doors for research into fatal neurodegenerative diseases ...

For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine ...

Our brains and their associated diseases are notoriously hard to study. So, researchers developed an animal model with a ...

The animals may help reveal the causes of brain disease in people and point the way to treatments. But researchers already ...

The seemingly trivial ability to hear a regular pulse in music is a remarkable—and perhaps distinctively human—feature of the ...

More than 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth from China may reveal a surprising link between this ancient human species, Denisovans, and some modern people. Scientists found protein mutations ...

Reconstructing the origins of our species requires many kinds of evidence: fossil and archaeological evidence like bones and artefacts, but also molecular evidence such as ancient DNA, and data on ...

Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like ...

Human biology is the study of all aspects of the human organism including evolution, genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, development, anthropology, and nutrition, among others. A deep ...

Human factors (also referred to as human factors psychology and human factors engineering) is an applied field of study that examines human abilities, limitations, behaviors, and processes in order to ...