Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold. As a rule, ...

AI can help humans reach their cognitive “flow state,” says author Mithu Storoni, by balancing challenge and ability.

All over the world people are ageing more rapidly and succumbing to diseases that typically affected the elderly. But there ...

Scientists say the return to "standard time" is good for our health. But the time change can be disruptive and we must also ...

Sanders: Yes. It’s not only West Virginia. It’s state after state after state. The Democratic Party has abdicated — they’ve given up. They’re not fighting for the working class. What the Democratic ...

Families with young children are yet again reeling after this week's Four Corners investigation into abuse in the early childhood sector.

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates, according to researchers.

How was the UN created? Initial planning began in 1939, when it became clear that the League of Nations had failed in its job ...

A funeral director explains how the bodies of the deceased are prepared for burial or cremation in the United States.

Scientists discovered that a blood molecule called CtBP2 may play a major role in how we age. It helps regulate metabolism ...

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...