I’m challenging you to a quick round of 'What Organ Is This?' as I showcase real human organs for you to identify—starting easy with a heart, moving to a kidney, and ending with a tricky spleen. Join ...

The ancient skeleton known as “Little Foot” has long been a celebrity in paleoanthropology, but a new wave of research is pushing it into even more provocative territory. Instead of fitting neatly ...

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Jeremy Pauley is fixture in the online oddities trade, known for binding books in human skin and preserving fetal remains. He ...

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My long-term collaborator, professor Charles Spence from the Crossmodal Laboratory in Oxford, told me his neuroscience ...

The rapid diversification of ants has “led to their role as ecological engineers” that can work in habitats across the world, ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

A small fossil reveals that the largest freshwater fish, Otophysans, emerged in the sea, not in rivers, changing the ...

Katie received her bachelor's degree in registered nursing from Western Governors University. She then also received her master's degree in nursing education from Western Governors University. To ...

Drawing from a broad spectrum of social, biological, health, and physical science disciplines, Nature Human Behaviour publishes research of outstanding significance into any aspect of individual or ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.