Why humans are helpless at birth and what it tells us about human nature

A human baby arrives in the world in a strange state, eyes open, ears working, brain growing fast, yet unable to move through ...

High-resolution atlas of developing human brain combines data from nearly 200 studies and 30 million cells

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and ...
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Broad collaboration produces high-resolution atlas of developing human brain

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and ...

New discoveries are showing how human anatomy is far from settled

We think the human body is fully mapped. In reality, anatomy is still incomplete, and shaped by who was studied, and who wasn ...

From ‘Project Hail Mary’ to Artemis II, spaceflight captures audiences when it centers on people because human space travel is hazardous

NASA is not alone in its lunar ambitions. Private space companies SpaceX and Blue Origin are developing next-generation ...
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Scientists say we’ve been looking in the wrong place for human origins

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...