Equids, members of the horse family including horses, donkeys and zebras, share curious features called chestnuts. Found on ...

For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that ...

Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold. As a rule, ...

Pancreas development in pigs resembles humans much more closely than does the established mouse model. An international team ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates, according to researchers.

Men have nipples because nipples begin to develop in all embryos before sex differentiation occurs in the womb. They also serve a purpose in sexual arousal.

Eight powerful short plays written by eminent playwrights and performed by some of Mumbai’s finest theatre and film actors captivated viewers here at Rabindra Mandap, Saturday. Also Read Academic ...

Most men stop growing by 18 years old. However, genetic and environmental factors can cause a person to either continue ...

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

Scientists are mapping how the body senses internal organs. This “sixth sense” study could reveal new ways to treat chronic diseases.

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...

The confounding discovery of a human femur has created a mystery in the dense woods of rural North Carolina. More bones have since been found, and investigators suspect they may be the remains of a ...