New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred ...

Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s, my team at Google Research was working on a wide variety of ...

When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question. Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern Homo ...

The human brain is turning out to be much more complicated than scientists could have ever imagined (Credit: Mareen Fischinger/Forschungszentrum Jülich) Human brains are bigger than those of our ...

Human babies are born remarkably helpless, a deliberate evolutionary advantage. This early dependence allows for extended brain development outside the womb, fostering exceptional intelligence and ...

Artificial intelligence has painted a startling picture of human evolution, suggesting that by the year 3025, our species could bear little resemblance to its current form. Prolonged digital immersion ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

Human brains are bigger than those of our primate relatives, but evidence from extinct human ancestors suggests size isn't everything. To understand human intelligence, scientists are now looking ...