Sleep is essential, yet humans have evolved to need so little of it. When evolutionary anthropologist David Samson delved ...

David Samson is associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research ...

Women who were vaccinated against covid-19 in the luteal phase of their menstrual cycle reported having a breakthrough ...

Tiny 3D-printed diving suits allow cockroaches to walk underwater for up to 3 hours with no ill effects, which could enable a ...

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...

Chioma Eve is a freelance reporter focused on women's health, biotech and life sciences. She has a degree in biotechnology ...

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...

A woman with severe Alzheimer's disease who hadn't spoken more than monosyllables in years began initiating conversation ...

From the age of legal adulthood to the concept of "profound autism", policy-makers are turning to neuroscience to help shape ...

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human ...