Researchers make human neurons grow inside living rat brains
The human neurons may be altering the rats' behavior.
Tag: human
Human bones were fair game for Stone-Age pendants, ancient graves show
These pendants don't seem to have been considered 'special' in any way, though.
Spanish archeologists may have found the oldest human fossil in Europe last Friday
Not bad for a Fossil Friday!
The lack of menopause support in the workplace is affecting both the economy and human rights
Menopausal women and transexual men are facing stigma and prejudice in the workplace -- and it's a bigger problem than ...
Brain scans are saving convicted murderers from death row–but should they?
Perpetrators of horrendous crimes could avoid the death penalty because of their brainwaves.
The fascinating science behind the first human HIV mRNA vaccine trial – what exactly does it entail?
The trial involves the most powerful human antibodies ever discovered.
Good news — study finds that people generally try to help one another out
We have a desire to help hardwired into us.
Meet the Internet’s unsung heroes: Wikipedia’s human collaborators
Though we take it for granted, their collective work has left the world a better place for us all.
Researchers obtain oldest-ever human DNA from ancient tooth
It's helping us piece together the human family tree.
Our long shadow: humanity places ‘intense’ pressure on 17,500 species of land vertebrates
With great impact comes great responsibility.
Humans and Neanderthals diverged at least 800,000 years ago, new teeth study shows
This just goes to show how complex our evolutionary history really is.
Potential new species of human found in cave in Philippines
This would make the 5th lineage that lived alongside modern humans.
New research suggests humanity’s ancestors began walking upright earlier than believed
Walk like an Egyptian?
The ‘forager gene’ of humans and fruit flies works in practically the same way
No time like mealtime.
We’re watching a ‘horror story’ in which the casualty is Earth’s wilderness
Only 23% of the world can now be considered wilderness.
Why do people self-harm? New study offers surprising answers
Definitely an unexpected finding.
One broken gene made us very good runners
A genetic fluke two to three million years ago turned humans into the best endurance runners around.
The UK’s HPV-vaccine effort paid off: infections are down 86%
Good news from the UK!
There are huge differences in how animals see the world — we’re among the crisp-eyed
Enjoy the world in HD.
Three confirmed, six suspected deaths from emerging Nipah virus in India
The WHO has previously placed this virus on its watchlist of pathogens with high "epidemic potential" and no known treatment.
Human-like walking evolved before the genus Homo, more than 3.6 million years ago
Well if it sounds like a human and walks like a human...
We can’t grow new neurons in adulthood after all, new study says
Neurogenesis fully stops after the age of thirteen, researchers suggest.
Man-made: we’ve domesticated our own species
Does this make us pets?
Humans got a brain upgrade less than 200,000 years ago, and it made us what we are today
The brain changes and the skull follows.
Oldest human fossil outside Africa suggests our species left the continent 100,000 years earlier than thought
A 200,000-year-old human jawbone found in a cave in Israel is rewriting history.
Humans got taller, then bulkier in ‘bursts’ during our evolution
Growing strong!
Experimental male birth control seems to work, but the side effects are pretty nasty
The shots were 97% effective but were not very pleasant to handle.
Study wants to track EVERYTHING 10,000 New Yorkers do over 20 years, to unravel the mysteries of the human condition
It's very creepy, but might be a game changer in science.
Humans are the world’s super predator – by far
Though humans might not be as fierce as a lion or white shark, we're definitely the greatest predatory species in ...
Why do we have chins?
Chins are weird and make little evolutionary sense.
Neanderthals and humans interbred in the Middle East over 50,000 years ago
An ancient skull found in Israel indicates that early Homo sapiens likely interbred with Neanderthals 50,000 years ago. The female skull is ...
The cost of culture and learning is disease, but it’s been worth it
Transferring knowledge from one individual to the other forms the basis of all human cultures, whether we're talking about learning ...
When interacting with other people, we first notice race and gender
Harvard researchers have found a brain region in which patterns of neural activity change when people look at black and ...
The ancient ‘Nutcracker Man’ actually prefered grass
In a recent important palentological find, it seems that one of our ancient ancestors, the so called "Nutcracker Man" who ...
Complete Neanderthal genome sequenced
Yes ladies and gents, researchers have produced the whole genome sequence of the 3 billion "letters" (nucleotides) in the Neanderthalian ...
The dawn of the mamimal? MPs back creation of human-animal embryos
British scientists have received the green light to research devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s using human-animal ...