Human bodies are not nearly as clear-cut as school textbooks might suggest, or as social media shows you. Recently, people ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building to vestigial anatomy.

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every familiar category of life. Yet that is what several research teams now say they ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution rewired ...

Systems biology aims to achieve holistic insights into the molecular workings of cellular systems through iterative loops of measurement, analysis and perturbation. This framework has had remarkable ...

In a recent perspective article published in the journal Nature Communications, over 30 scientists from around the world discussed the action plans and principles of the global scientific initiative ...

While analytical methods portray skeletal sex differences as almost purely binary (female or male), a person's sex—including ...

The human body looks ordinary on the surface. Two eyes, ten fingers, predictable routines. Underneath, though, things get strange fast. Biology bends rules you did not even know existed. Some of these ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind initiative combining frontier artificial intelligence and frontier biology to dramatically accelerate scientific ...

Sea stars can produce eggs for up to 200 years. Their surprisingly human-like ovaries may offer clues about fertility and reproductive aging.