Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began around 6 million years ago and gave rise to at least 18 species, ...

Researchers in China conducted the first study demonstrating this neural coupling between two different species. Using electroencephalography (EEG), they recorded the brain signals of dogs and humans ...

Brown fat, unlike white fat, burns calories and regulates body temperature. The study published in Aging Cell shows that it also improves blood circulation to muscles during exercise. The modified ...

While preparing your omelet, you may have found yourself needing several tries to crack your eggs. So how can a chick have enough strength to break out of its shell?

While the patterns and colors of lizard skin are fascinating, the mechanisms behind them are largely unknown. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has focused on the leopard gecko, a popular ...

The only organ in our body with an intrinsic innervation, the intestine has one hundred million neurons connected to the central nervous system by only two thousand axons. This enteric nervous system ...

By Laure Tabouy - University of Paris-Saclay Consciousness is one of the most complicated and complex notions. Complicated because it is difficult to understand, and complex because it encompasses ...

By Sara Webb - Lecturer, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology Does the universe have an end or an edge? Scientists cannot definitively answer this question, ...

Indeed, our body is not well adapted for this consumption, and alcohol remains toxic, even though evolution has done what it could by stabilizing a mutation in our genome in the gene coding for the ...

Beneath our feet, hundreds of kilometers deep, lies an invisible yet essential world: the Earth's mantle. For a long time, scientists believed they understood its structure and functioning. But a ...

The functioning of the brain relies on the precise organization of neuronal connections. In an article published in Developmental Cell, scientists show how neurons establish their connections in ...

The pupils, those small black circles at the center of our eyes, could well become a key to understanding sleep. A team of researchers has discovered that their size constantly varies during sleep, ...