According to the study, our ancestors split from a group 1.5 million years ago and rejoined them 300,000 years ago.

The human brain runs on a tight energy budget. Despite making up only 2% of our body weight, it devours around 20% of our ...

New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

On this episode of Primer, we explore the world of biocomputing, where scientists are blurring the lines between the biological and synthetic.

After holding leadership roles at Zulily and Amazon, Yurcisin joined Grove Collaborative in 2023 to help revitalize the ...

The human brain appears to undergo accelerated ageing once a person reaches the age of 44, with the deterioration hitting a peak around 67 and plateauing around 90, according to a new study.

Turing AI,' which operates more like the human brain. This new AI integrates certain processes instead of separating them and then migrating huge amounts of data like current systems do.