The humble planarian flatworm can regrow its brain. Here’s how this tiny animal will have you rethinking everything you ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

The most disciplined people aren't the ones grinding themselves into dust. They're the ones who've figured out how to make the hard things a little easier and how to build systems that don't rely on ...

Calling consciousness an "entropic engine" points to something psychologically obvious: selfhood costs energy. Maintaining a stable "me" model across time, contexts, and internal contradictions ...

I used to wonder why some people stuck in my mind for years, while others faded within hours. It wasn’t necessarily about how charming they were or how much we had in common. Something about certain ...

What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental diseases? In a new paper, researchers led by István Mikó and Holly Hoag at ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

In recent years I have come to accept the idea that I am in fact little more than a bag of flesh and bones, a fallible body propelled by a fallible brain. This week, The Atlantic launched Being Human, ...

As humans, we have two different ways to talk to ourselves. The first includes being critical, judgmental, and a worrier. The second way we can talk to ourselves is to recognize and give credit for ...